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half-baked, a.|ˈhɑːfbeɪkt|
1. lit. See half adv. and baked; hence, underdone, not thorough, not earnest; raw, crude, ill-digested; half-finished, incomplete, rude.
1621Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 330 Our profest Popelings, and halfe-baked Protestants. a1628Preston Serm. Bef. His Majestie (1630) 36 They are either done withoute heate, or but half-baked. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxi, He must scheme, forsooth, this half-baked Scotch cake!..this lump of oatmeal dough!
2. Deficient in intellect; silly, half-witted. dial.
1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! iii. (D.), A sort of harmless lunatic, and, as they say in Devon, half-baked. 1893Spectator 24 June 847 Nor could a special variety of intellectual feebleness be better described than by the epithet ‘half-baked’.
Hence as n., a half-baked person. colloq. and dial.
1866J. Sleigh in Reliquary VI. 160 Half-char or half-baked, a foolish fellow. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 4 Aug. 81/2 The half-baked measures by which politicians try so hard to cripple the Australian system. 1923U. L. Silberrad Lett. J. Armiter ix. 192, I believe girls were better off really with the old lock-and-key, guard-the-girls sort than with these half-bakeds, who let 'em have their heads. |