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Doughy   Listen
adjective
Doughy  adj.  Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Doughy" Quotes from Famous Books



... to, since you couldn't make one for yourself," laughed Nora. "Never mind, you'll be a man when you grow up and you won't have to mess around a kitchen. Here you are!" and she caught him up, all doughy as he was, and carried him to the big tent where his mother soon had him washed and in ...
— The Curlytops on Star Island - or Camping out with Grandpa • Howard R. Garis

... you do, Mrs. Caphusalent I hope you approved of the genuine tea." "O yes, new brooms sweep clean, and I have no occasion to buy birch ones, while I deal at your shop for tea." "There's nothing like my cheap bread," says Doughy the baker. "O yes," says Neddy, "you forget plaster of ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... been carried to the high regions of art, and there, in a dry aesthetic atmosphere, sealed up in a purely aesthetic conception it can never be externalized in pure form. That is what the great Primitives did, and what the douanier could not do always. In his pudding there are doughy patches. He is sentimental; and he is not sentimental as Raphael and ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell



Words linked to "Doughy" :   soggy



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