slack-baked
Americanadjective
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improperly baked.
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imperfectly made.
Etymology
Origin of slack-baked
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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It's what every slack-baked youth in the office says when he's played the fool.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
The pound of bread was not much larger: it was made of barley, slack-baked, and very dark, though sweet.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
Toby looked on from a tall bench hard by; one beaming smile, from his broad nut-brown face down to the slack-baked buckles in his shoes.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
Tchuh!" said Mr. Macey, provoked to increased severity, "he isn't come to his right colour yet: he's partly like a slack-baked pie.
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
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