Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being doughy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being doughy.

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  • noun The state or condition of being doughy.

Etymologies

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doughy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • One pizza in particular left me with a bruised finger from pressing so hard on my knife just to cut through the doughiness of it.

    Rome. So much to tell. Michele 2007

  • This results in more gluten, and therefore more doughiness, more chewiness, rather than a more crumbly, tender crust.

    Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009

  • This leisure class soon learned that, ironically, it had to fend off doughiness and ill health with the very physical activity it had managed to cast off.

    Let's Get Cultural: Cycling Causes Importance BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • I'm really starting to wonder if there's some correlation between "conservative" "doughiness" and latent homosexuality.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! CC 2008

  • Okay this review is making me hungry and wanting to go get my decant of Farnesians, which I also describe as having a wonderful doughiness.

    Norma Kamali Violette ScentScelf 2008

  • This cardboard-like quality makes Chocolate Greedy quite a bit like Compotoir Sud Pacifique's Amour de Cacao, which I have never been able to wear exactly because of its powdery, somewhat artificial, overly sweet and strangely tough doughiness.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • The soft doughiness and spiciness might be a bit much.

    Chocolate Chilli Shortbread Niki 2005

  • The soft doughiness and spiciness might be a bit much.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Niki 2005

  • Miss Hoag's eyelids, the flush receding before doughiness.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • She had passed that stage in which a man regards his child with despair; she had passed out of slippery and evasive doughiness into a firm tangibility that made it some pleasure to hold her.

    A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878

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