| 释义 |
slack-baked, a.
[slack adv.]
Of bread: Imperfectly or insufficiently baked.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 32 Those loaves are invariably slack-baked. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. viii, That particular style of loaf which is known to housekeepers as a slack-baked, crummy quartern. 1884Sala Journ. South i. xxiv. (1887) 318 A board covered with squat round loaves of bread, somewhat slack-baked in appearance.
fig.1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xli, One beaming smile, from his nut-brown face down to the slack-baked buckles in his shoes. 1882Daily Telegr. 8 Apr., Such a slack-baked slop-made little atomy as he is.
Hence slack-bake v.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz iv. (1850) 14 Men..who had mis⁓managed the workhouse, ground the paupers, diluted the beer, slack-baked the bread. |