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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But a few old houses of a Dutch style of architecture still remain to show what manner of place this was before it had become suburban and its spacious old architecture destroyed to make way for the interminable back streets where City clerkdom dwells in houselets composed of slack-baked bricks built on ash-heaps, “comprising” four cupboards, miscalled “rooms,” with what the estate-agent magniloquently terms “the usual domestic offices.”
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It's what every slack-baked youth in the office says when he's played the fool.
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For supper we had, not unleavened bread, but that which contained "the little leaven," that having had no time to "leaven the whole lump," rendered it still heavier of digestion; butter half-worked, tea made of water that did not get time to boil, and slack-baked cakes.
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Throw it down to me, you nasty slack-baked, smock-frocked son of a speckled toad!'
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A slack-baked pair as ever wore boots.
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