单词 | dough-baked |
释义 | † dough-bakedadj. Obsolete. 1. Chiefly of bread: underbaked, so as to have an unpleasantly doughy consistency. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > soggy or imperfectly baked dough-baken?a1450 clammy1530 doughish1556 doughy1578 dough-baked1582 slack-baked1823 sod1836 soggy1868 1582 J. Prime Short Treat. Sacraments Pref. sig. Aiiiv As good no bread at all, as so vile a prouender made of mixtures, eyther hard, or dowbaked and clammie. 1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis vi. xi. 649 All that is..hard of digestion, as..porrage of Pease or Beanes, vnleauened and dough baked bread. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xx. 205 In that oven wherein Dow-bak'd cakes shall be burnt. 1671 J. Halfpenny Gentleman's Jocky ccxxxiii. 281 Swelling of the Belly or great Bag, proceeding..from eating of green corn or pulse,..or bread Dow-baked. 1712 W. Pittis Hist. Proc. 2nd Session Present Parl. 35 The poor Soldiers..had complain'd of the Courseness of their Bread, and of its being dough-bak'd to make it weight. 1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 229 The loaf from Mr. Holmes's oven was in every respect well baked, but the other was dough-baked and imperfect. 1862 Charleston (S. Carolina) Tri-weekly Courier 12 Apr. Much of the sickness..has been caused by half done victuals—partially boiled rice and dough-baked bread. 1908 Zion's Herald 13 May 627/1 Too slow an oven will evolve a dough-baked concern that will have not the least resemblance to its more carefully baked sister. 2. figurative. Imperfect, deficient; lacking in spirit or conviction; ineffectual. Also: foolish, half-witted (English regional (south-western) in later use, cf. doughbake n. 2). Cf. half-baked adj. 2a, 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > of constitution neshOE tender?c1225 softa1387 delicatea1398 nicec1450 slendera1500 weak?1523 dainty1562 fine1562 cockney1573 weakly1577 dough-baked1592 lax1732 flimsy1742 lax-fibred1762 doughy1763 dauncy1846 fragile1858 slim1877 chétif1908 1592 J. Lyly Midas ii. ii. sig. B4v Pi. A reason dowe-baked. Li. O! the ouen of his wit was not throwly heated. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. C4v A Very very Woman, is a dow-bakt man, or a Shee ment well towards man, but fell the two bowes short strength & vnderstanding. 1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 80 A deade luke-warme indifferencie, a dow-baked zeale. 1660 J. Gauden Serm. Funeral Brounrig 163 A kinde of ambiguous and dough-baked Protestants, that are afraid to own their discommunion. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xiv. 82 Your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home..when glory is to be gain'd in the martial field. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Moral & Polit. Lect. 9 These dough-baked Patriots may not..be without their use. This Oscillation of political Opinion..may operate as a preventative to its Excesses. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 16 He's a kind o' doughbaked sort o' feller. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Dough-baked He's a poor tool, he, sure 'nough—lookth dough-baked like, s'off a was a-put in way the bread and a-tookt out way the cakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1582 |
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