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Etymology

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Probably conceived in opposition to half-baked

Adjective

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well-baked (comparative more well-baked, superlative most well-baked)

  1. Fully developed through work, thought, or planning; refined
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 355:
      How is it possible, then, for Bobby Caldwell to make hard-rock records like Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer one day, and sing well-baked disco ballads the next?
    • 2010 January 22, Ste, “The nature of Gravity?”, in sci.physics.relativity[1] (Usenet):
      I just want to start this post by saying that this is more of a product of a thought experiment of mine, not a well-baked theory.
    • 2016 February 12, Torsten Zuehlsdorff, “Removing documentation”, in muc.lists.freebsd.ports[2] (Usenet):
      The current ports/pkg relationship is still fragile, perhaps because it's new. [...] Contrast this with the Ubuntu world, where there is a well-baked "unattended-upgrades" option that automatically downloads and upgrades all security updates for both the OS and all third-party packages.