请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 slack-baked
释义

slack-bakedadj.

Etymology: slack adv.
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.
figurative.1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xli. 169 One beaming smile, from his..nut-brown face down to the slack-baked buckles in his shoes.1882 Daily Tel. 8 Apr. Such a slack-baked slop-made little atomy as he is.

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
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 7:42:24