dough-baked

English

Adjective

dough-baked (not comparable)

1. Imperfectly baked.
2. (colloquial) Not brought to perfection; unfinished.
3. (colloquial) Dull-witted.
   • 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison:

     But as to your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home and strut among the women, when glory is to be gained in the martial field; I despise them with all my heart.

References

• “dough-baked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.