单词 | slack-baked |
释义 | slack-bakedadj. Of bread: Imperfectly or insufficiently baked. 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 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 32 Those loaves are invariably slack-baked. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) viii. 94 That particular style of loaf which is known to housekeepers as a slack-baked, crummy quartern. 1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South (1887) i. xxiv. 318 A board covered with squat round loaves of bread, somewhat slack-baked in appearance. Derivatives slack-bake v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > bake > bake partially slack-bake1836 par-baked1841 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 44 Men..who had mismanaged the workhouse, ground the paupers, diluted the beer, slack-baked the bread. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1823 |
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