doughy

[ doh-ee ]

/ ˈdoʊ i /

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adjective, dough·i·er, dough·i·est.

of or likedough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face.

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Origin of doughy

First recorded in 1595–1605; dough + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM doughy

dough·i·ness, noun

Words nearby doughy

doughfoot, dough hook, doughnut, doughnut hole, doughty, doughy, Douglas, Douglas bag, Douglas fir, Douglas-Home, Douglas Hurd

How to use doughy in a sentence

Fermented fungal spores, for example, produce a dense, doughy substance called mycoprotein, while fermented algae produce spirulina, a dietary supplement.
Replacing some meat with microbial protein could help fight climate change|Carolyn Gramling|May 5, 2022|Science News
Everything is mixed together form a doughy and homogeneous mass, which is cooked in the microwave for approximately 40 minutes.
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After a few minutes, my pizza was perfectly cooked, doughy and lightweight yet with a firm, delicious crust.
This Pizza Steel From Made In Is the Best of Any I’ve Tried|Daniel Modlin|May 14, 2021|The Daily Beast
Sometimes the lemon flavor was weak or the cookies came out too doughy.
If you’re craving a lemon cookie that actually tastes like lemon, this is it|Brother Andrew Corriente|December 2, 2020|Washington Post

His uniform was too tight and was wrapped around his doughy body like cellophane.
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If convicted as charged, the doughy, bespectacled Chaney could get more than 120 years in prison.
Celebrities' Email Hacking Nightmare|Christine Pelisek|October 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The result, seen in the dark, was a formless black mass, very doughy and fatty; but with oases of palatable matter.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V.|Erskine Childers
Many amateur campers wonder why the biscuits are flat or doughy.
The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers|Claude A. Labelle
They were all doughy when they came out, very much as they were when they went in; but the dough was deliciously sweet and spicy.
The Squirrel-Cage|Dorothy Canfield
Mother Corey shook his head, shaking the few hairs on his head and face, and the wrinkles in his doughy skin deepened.
Police Your Planet|Lester del Rey
Good opium is hard in the cold, but becomes flexible and doughy when it is worked between the hot hands.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure

British Dictionary definitions for doughy

doughy

/ (ˈdəʊɪ) /

adjective doughier or doughiest

resembling dough in consistency, colour, etc; soft, pallid, or flabby

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