dough-baked

English

Adjective

dough-baked (not comparable)

1. Imperfectly baked.

   Near-synonym: half-baked

2. (colloquial) Not brought to perfection; unfinished.

   Near-synonym: half-baked

3. (colloquial, archaic, of a person) Dandy but soft, and thus unmanly; 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

• Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1859) A Dictionary of the English Language‎^[1], Brewer and Tileston, page 441: “DOUGH-BAKED. Unfinished; soft. "As if he were dough-baked."”
• “dough-baked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.