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half-baked. Anything or anyone raw, incomplete, or not thoroughgoing has been called half-baked since at least the ear- ly 17th century, the allusion being to undercooked baked goods. Some say, however, that the expression half-baked as ap- plied to half-witted, uncultured persons is of American origin. This seems unlikely, for although the term is first recorded here in the mid-19th century, an old Cornish proverb cited in 1868 defines a fool as “only half-baked; put in with the bread and taken out with the cakes.” |