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underdone, ppl. a.
(Stress var.)
[under-1 10 a, or f. underdo v.]
Of meat: Insufficiently cooked; left slightly raw after cooking.
1683Tryon Way to Health 111 That it [sc. roast flesh] be neither over nor under-done, but of the two, it is better that it be under-done. 1798Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799) II. 202, I shall give an account of every dinner I eat,..whether under or over-done. 1807Jane Austen Lett. (1884) I. 315 A boiled leg of mutton, underdone even for James. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes x, A plate of underdone roast-beef. 1874H. W. Pullen Mod. Christianity (1876) 65 You..make quite as much fuss, if the mutton is under-done.
transf.1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Spectre of Tappington, A little ferret-faced woman with underdone eyes. |