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Definition of Doughy
1. Adjective. Having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking. "The cake fell; it's a doughy mess"
Definition of Doughy
1. a. Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Definition of Doughy
1. Adjective. having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doughy
1. resembling dough [adj DOUGHIER, DOUGHIEST] - See also: dough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doughy
Literary usage of Doughy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"2) Heavy ; doughy. Var. dial. 3) Empty ; emaciated. Craven. 4) Daubed. Craven.
5) Tough ; dry. East. (6) Soft ; flabby ; relaxed. Norf. (7) Strong. Berks. ..."
2. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"With regard to the fare, it consisted, for supper, of coffee, greasy bacon fried
in its own fat, Indian corn-bread, and doughy cakes, baked without yeast in ..."
3. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Joe Miller, Robert Kempt (1865)
"The world is like a baked meat pie; the upper crust is rich, dry, and puffy; the
lowr crust is heavy, doughy, and underdone; the middle is D^t bad generally ..."
4. On Intermittent Fever and Other Malarious Diseases by Israel Shipman Pelton Lord (1871)
"There is the tremulous tongue, with brown coat; firm, doughy feel of the abdomen,
and foul breath, indicating Ars. And then there is the glandular disorder ..."
5. Lectures on fever: Delivered in the Theatre of the Meath Hospital and County by William Stokes (1876)
"... (2) doughy condition, (3) slight ascites—Increased action of abdominal aorta—Case
of, in perforation of the stomach—Analogous local arterial excitement ..."
6. Lectures on Diseases of the Spinal Cord by Pierre Marie (1895)
"Omet more or lesa gu'dden : swelling, doughy condition, absence of true oedema ;
crepitation ; absence of pain. Course of the affection mild and severe form ..."
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