half-bakedadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/, U.S.

/ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/

Forms: see half adv. and baked adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adv., baked adj.

Etymology: < half adv. + baked adj. Compare earlier half-baken adj.

A. adj.

1. Baked only halfway to completion; partially baked; not fully baked.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adjective] > not earnest

half-baked1562

half-faced1607

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > half-cooked

sam-soddena1000

half-bakena1500

half-baked1562

1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers xxix. f. 33^v in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre As manye yerthen bottells or pottes to be made as you liste to haue, whiche must be as it wer but haulfe baked.

1588 C. Lucar Appendix lxxxi. 74 (heading) in tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting To make and vse halfe baked pottes.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. vii. viii. 1186 The Bread of my Companions was halfe baked Dough, of round forme.

1757 P. Templeman tr. F. L. Norden Trav. Egypt & Nubia II. 163 The cakes that they make, are never above half baked.

1874 E. J. Silverton Humorous Parson viii. 68 A baker's half-baked cake would be sent to the hog-tub.

1952 Israel Explor. Jrnl. 2 229 A round oven made of half-baked clay was found in the first levels.

2006 Women's Health (U.S. ed.) Apr. 35/1 Half-baked brownies eaten with a spoon may help you feel better when you're down.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts.

a. Not fully formed or developed; lacking in spirit, conviction, or thoroughness; inadequately planned or executed; imperfect, incomplete, deficient.In quot. 1793 in negative context in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > [adjective]

incompletec1380

rudea1387

imperfecta1398

occasionala1398

unperfecta1398

unperfecteda1513

uncompleted1513

imperfected1552

unfinished1553

unconsummate1609

half-baked1627

illaborate1631

inconsummatea1641

uncrowned1743

stickit1784

unconsummated1813

incompleted1836

behindhand1853

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > deficient or wanting

wanec825

thurfec1175

lacking1480

indigent1531

defect1543

awanting1583

missed1584

wanting1592

defective1603

wanted1619

half-baked1627

deficient1632

manqué1773

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 380 Our profest Popelings, and halfe-baked Protestants.

a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 36 They are either done withoute heate, or but half-baked.

1793 H. Walpole Let. 7 Nov. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 411 If a Prince of Wales drops a thumping victory at my door as he goes past, you have it hot out of the oven, tho', as happened lately, not half-baked.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. v. 136 He must scheme, forsooth, this half-baked Scotch cake..this lump of oatmeal dough.

1848 Congr. Globe 264 Perhaps some of that majority are but half-baked Democrats.

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Aug. 81/2 The half-baked measures by which politicians try so hard to cripple the Australian system.

1932 C. Brooks Jrnl. 1 Dec. (1998) 41 The mess into which a half-baked attempt at self-government has driven the Burmans.

1977 S. J. Perelman Eastward Ha! vii. 101 All the mushmouthed diplos, half-baked gurus, female chauvinists, and Communist running dogs tirelessly bent on castrating us.

2012 D. Park Light of Amsterdam vi. 125 Even if it was some half-baked fantasy he wasn't going to rain on the parade.

b. colloquial and regional. Of a person: lacking in intelligence or common sense; half-witted, stupid, foolish. Cf. sense B.In quot. 1842 in negative context in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective]

sickc1340

dottlec1390

doting1489

dotish1509

feeble-minded1534

weak-brained1535

silly1568

fondish1579

lean-witted1597

soft1621

weaka1661

touched1697

muzzy-headed1798

defective1825

wanting1839

half-baked1842

dotty1860

knock-kneed1865

lean-minded1867

doddering1871

weak-minded1883

ninepence in the shilling1889

barmy1892

drippy1952

dipshit1968

1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. iv. 41 It is sometimes a term of reproach among us, in speaking of a silly fellow, that he is ‘not half baked’.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! iii A sort of harmless lunatic, and, as they say in Devon, half-baked.

1893 Spectator 24 June 847 Nor could a special variety of intellectual feebleness be better described than by the epithet ‘half-baked’.

1908 C. R. Kennedy Servant in House ii. 57 I 'ates the sight of their 'arf-baked, silly mugs!

1922 Mariner's Mirror 8 93/1 ‘Dough-baked’, ‘sam-sodden’, ‘sammy dawkin’.., all West Country expressions applied to a ‘half-baked’ fool.

1942 A. Christie Body in Libr. ix. 85 That half-baked nitwitted little slypuss.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 134/1 Doernt give that ter our Tam ter do; 'E's that half-baked 'e'll onny git it all wrong agen.

B. n.

colloquial and regional. A foolish or half-witted person; an idiot. Cf. sense A. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

asseOE

sotc1000

beastc1225

long-ear?a1300

stock1303

buzzard1377

mis-feelinga1382

dasarta1400

stonea1400

dasiberd14..

dottlec1400

doddypoll1401

dastardc1440

dotterel1440

dullardc1440

wantwit1449

jobardc1475

nollc1475

assheada1500

mulea1500

dull-pate15..

peak1509

dulbert?a1513

doddy-patec1525

noddypolla1529

hammer-head1532

dull-head?1534

capon1542

dolt1543

blockhead1549

cod's head1549

mome1550

grout-head1551

gander1553

skit-brains?1553

blocka1556

calfa1556

tomfool1565

dunce1567

druggard1569

cobble1570

dummel1570

Essex calf1573

jolthead1573

hardhead1576

beetle-head1577

dor-head1577

groutnoll1578

grosshead1580

thickskin1582

noddyship?1589

jobbernowl1592

beetle-brain1593

Dorbel1593

oatmeal-groat1594

loggerhead1595

block-pate1598

cittern-head1598

noddypoop1598

dorbellist1599

numps1599

dor1601

stump1602

ram-head1605

look-like-a-goose1606

ruff1606

clod1607

turf1607

asinego1609

clot-poll1609

doddiea1611

druggle1611

duncecomb1612

ox-head1613

clod-polla1616

dulman1615

jolterhead1620

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dunderwhelpa1625

dunderhead1630

macaroona1631

clod-patea1635

clota1637

dildo1638

clot-pate1640

stupid1640

clod-head1644

stub1644

simpletonian1652

bottle-head1654

Bœotiana1657

vappe1657

lackwit1668

cudden1673

plant-animal1673

dolt-head1679

cabbage head1682

put1688

a piece of wood1691

ouphe1694

dunderpate1697

numbskull1697

leather-head1699

nocky1699

Tom Cony1699

mopus1700

bluff-head1703

clod skull1707

dunny1709

dowf1722

stupe1722

gamphrel1729

gobbin?1746

duncehead1749

half-wit1755

thick-skull1755

jackass1756

woollen-head1756

numbhead1757

beef-head1775

granny1776

stupid-head1792

stunpolla1794

timber-head1794

wether heada1796

dummy1796

noghead1800

staumrel1802

muttonhead1803

num1807

dummkopf1809

tumphya1813

cod's head and shoulders1820

stoopid1823

thick-head1824

gype1825

stob1825

stookiea1828

woodenhead1831

ning-nong1832

log-head1834

fat-head1835

dunderheadism1836

turnip1837

mudhead1838

donkey1840

stupex1843

cabbage1844

morepork1845

lubber-head1847

slowpoke1847

stupiditarian1850

pudding-head1851

cod's head and shoulders1852

putty head1853

moke1855

mullet-head1855

pothead1855

mug1857

thick1857

boodle1862

meathead1863

missing link1863

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lunk1867

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rummy1872

pumpkin-head1876

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chump1883

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cretin1884

lunkhead1884

mopstick1886

dumbhead1887

peanut head1891

pie-face1891

doughbakea1895

butt-head1896

pinhead1896

cheesehead1900

nyamps1900

box head1902

bonehead1903

chickenhead1903

thickwit1904

cluck1906

boob1907

John1908

mooch1910

nitwit1910

dikkop1913

goop1914

goofus1916

rumdum1916

bone dome1917

moron1917

oik1917

jabroni1919

dumb-bell1920

knob1920

goon1921

dimwit1922

ivory dome1923

stone jug1923

dingleberry1924

gimp1924

bird brain1926

jughead1926

cloth-head1927

dumb1928

gazook1928

mouldwarp1928

ding-dong1929

stupido1929

mook1930

sparrow-brain1930

knobhead1931

dip1932

drip1932

epsilon1932

bohunkus1933

Nimrod1933

dumbass1934

zombie1936

pea-brain1938

knot-head1940

schlump1941

jarhead1942

Joe Soap1943

knuckle-head1944

nong1944

lame-brain1945

gobshite1946

rock-head1947

potato head1948

jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

bam1959

nong-nong1959

dickhead1960

dumbo1960

Herbert1960

lamer1961

bampot1962

dipshit1963

bamstick1965

doofus1965

dick1966

pillock1967

zipperhead1967

dipstick1968

thickie1968

poephol1969

yo-yo1970

doof1971

cockhead1972

nully1973

thicko1976

wazzock1976

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

no-brainer1979

jerkwad1980

woodentop1981

dickwad1983

dough ball1983

dickweed1984

bawheid1985

numpty1985

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

knob-end1989

Muppet1989

dingus1997

dicksack1999

eight ball-

1866 J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 6 160 Half-char or half-baked, a foolish fellow.

1919 Harvard Lampoon 21 Mar. 99/2 Down the avenue sacred forever, to the memories of Harvard half-bakeds,..sneaks a solitary figure.

1929 Boys' Life July 8/2 He was laughing to himself over the funny gang of half-bakeds he was shipped off to Europe with.

2018 @Scott_T_Cunning 29 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 19 Aug. 2019) Truth hurts those conservative halfbakeds.

Derivatives

half-ˈbakedness n. lack of thoroughness, incompleteness, inadequacy.

ΚΠ

1905 Collier's 1 Apr. 18/3 It would have still convinced my Western friend of the ‘half-bakedness’ of the strike.

1947 Commentary Jan. 393/2 Only in this age could such half-bakedness reach print in anything but subsidized editions.

2014 Atlantic June The whole event seemed to exult in its own half-bakedness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	half-baked
释义	half-bakedadj.n. Brit. /ˌhɑːfˈbeɪkt/, U.S. /ˌhæfˈbeɪkt/ Forms: see half adv. and baked adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adv., baked adj. Etymology: < half adv. + baked adj. Compare earlier half-baken adj. A. adj. 1. Baked only halfway to completion; partially baked; not fully baked. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adjective] > not earnest half-baked1562 half-faced1607 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > half-cooked sam-soddena1000 half-bakena1500 half-baked1562 1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers xxix. f. 33^v in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre As manye yerthen bottells or pottes to be made as you liste to haue, whiche must be as it wer but haulfe baked. 1588 C. Lucar Appendix lxxxi. 74 (heading) in tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting To make and vse halfe baked pottes. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. vii. viii. 1186 The Bread of my Companions was halfe baked Dough, of round forme. 1757 P. Templeman tr. F. L. Norden Trav. Egypt & Nubia II. 163 The cakes that they make, are never above half baked. 1874 E. J. Silverton Humorous Parson viii. 68 A baker's half-baked cake would be sent to the hog-tub. 1952 Israel Explor. Jrnl. 2 229 A round oven made of half-baked clay was found in the first levels. 2006 Women's Health (U.S. ed.) Apr. 35/1 Half-baked brownies eaten with a spoon may help you feel better when you're down. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. a. Not fully formed or developed; lacking in spirit, conviction, or thoroughness; inadequately planned or executed; imperfect, incomplete, deficient.In quot. 1793 in negative context in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > [adjective] incompletec1380 rudea1387 imperfecta1398 occasionala1398 unperfecta1398 unperfecteda1513 uncompleted1513 imperfected1552 unfinished1553 unconsummate1609 half-baked1627 illaborate1631 inconsummatea1641 uncrowned1743 stickit1784 unconsummated1813 incompleted1836 behindhand1853 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > deficient or wanting wanec825 thurfec1175 lacking1480 indigent1531 defect1543 awanting1583 missed1584 wanting1592 defective1603 wanted1619 half-baked1627 deficient1632 manqué1773 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 380 Our profest Popelings, and halfe-baked Protestants. a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 36 They are either done withoute heate, or but half-baked. 1793 H. Walpole Let. 7 Nov. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 411 If a Prince of Wales drops a thumping victory at my door as he goes past, you have it hot out of the oven, tho', as happened lately, not half-baked. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. v. 136 He must scheme, forsooth, this half-baked Scotch cake..this lump of oatmeal dough. 1848 Congr. Globe 264 Perhaps some of that majority are but half-baked Democrats. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Aug. 81/2 The half-baked measures by which politicians try so hard to cripple the Australian system. 1932 C. Brooks Jrnl. 1 Dec. (1998) 41 The mess into which a half-baked attempt at self-government has driven the Burmans. 1977 S. J. Perelman Eastward Ha! vii. 101 All the mushmouthed diplos, half-baked gurus, female chauvinists, and Communist running dogs tirelessly bent on castrating us. 2012 D. Park Light of Amsterdam vi. 125 Even if it was some half-baked fantasy he wasn't going to rain on the parade. b. colloquial and regional. Of a person: lacking in intelligence or common sense; half-witted, stupid, foolish. Cf. sense B.In quot. 1842 in negative context in same sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective] sickc1340 dottlec1390 doting1489 dotish1509 feeble-minded1534 weak-brained1535 silly1568 fondish1579 lean-witted1597 soft1621 weaka1661 touched1697 muzzy-headed1798 defective1825 wanting1839 half-baked1842 dotty1860 knock-kneed1865 lean-minded1867 doddering1871 weak-minded1883 ninepence in the shilling1889 barmy1892 drippy1952 dipshit1968 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. iv. 41 It is sometimes a term of reproach among us, in speaking of a silly fellow, that he is ‘not half baked’. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! iii A sort of harmless lunatic, and, as they say in Devon, half-baked. 1893 Spectator 24 June 847 Nor could a special variety of intellectual feebleness be better described than by the epithet ‘half-baked’. 1908 C. R. Kennedy Servant in House ii. 57 I 'ates the sight of their 'arf-baked, silly mugs! 1922 Mariner's Mirror 8 93/1 ‘Dough-baked’, ‘sam-sodden’, ‘sammy dawkin’.., all West Country expressions applied to a ‘half-baked’ fool. 1942 A. Christie Body in Libr. ix. 85 That half-baked nitwitted little slypuss. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 134/1 Doernt give that ter our Tam ter do; 'E's that half-baked 'e'll onny git it all wrong agen. B. n. colloquial and regional. A foolish or half-witted person; an idiot. Cf. sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1866 J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 6 160 Half-char or half-baked, a foolish fellow. 1919 Harvard Lampoon 21 Mar. 99/2 Down the avenue sacred forever, to the memories of Harvard half-bakeds,..sneaks a solitary figure. 1929 Boys' Life July 8/2 He was laughing to himself over the funny gang of half-bakeds he was shipped off to Europe with. 2018 @Scott_T_Cunning 29 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 19 Aug. 2019) Truth hurts those conservative halfbakeds. Derivatives half-ˈbakedness n. lack of thoroughness, incompleteness, inadequacy. ΚΠ 1905 Collier's 1 Apr. 18/3 It would have still convinced my Western friend of the ‘half-bakedness’ of the strike. 1947 Commentary Jan. 393/2 Only in this age could such half-bakedness reach print in anything but subsidized editions. 2014 Atlantic June The whole event seemed to exult in its own half-bakedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1562
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