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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
doughy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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This results in more gluten, and therefore more doughiness, more chewiness, rather than a more crumbly, tender crust.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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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
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I'm really starting to wonder if there's some correlation between "conservative" "doughiness" and latent homosexuality.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! CC 2008
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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
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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
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The soft doughiness and spiciness might be a bit much.
Chocolate Chilli Shortbread Niki 2005
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The soft doughiness and spiciness might be a bit much.
Archive 2005-08-01 Niki 2005
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Miss Hoag's eyelids, the flush receding before doughiness.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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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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