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The state of being half-baked, where promise outweighs structure and everything still bends.
means Having the soft, pale, unfinished quality of dough — pasty, fleshy, or lacking firmness, whether describing skin, a face, or anything insufficiently formed.
from From 'dough,' the unbaked mix of flour and water that English has carried since its Old English days as 'dāg,' a word with deep Germanic roots and a likely ancient cousin in Latin 'fingere,' to shape or knead. Add the everyday '-y' that turns a noun into a likeness, and you get 'doughy': the look of something still soft in the bowl, not yet hardened in the oven.
- origin
- From Old English dag, meaning kneaded paste
- science
- Gluten strands give dough its stretchy backbone
- texture word
- Describes faces, hands, and underbaked bread alike
- rising act
- Yeast burps carbon dioxide to inflate dough
pillsbury doughboy — giggling mascot for pillsbury since 1965, ticklish character in ads
jim henson puppets — soft doughy felt characters like cookie monster and big bird created from 1969