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half-bakeds

half-bakeds is the plural of half-baked.

Meaning of half-baked

Noun

half-baked (plural half-bakeds)

  1. (UK, dialectal, informal) A foolish or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
    • Half-bakeds were not lacking. Under this family name, however, stood various genera described in that day's idiom, more often spoken than written—a speech not elegant, but grounded in truth and winged by fancy—as "sap-heads," "un-mit-i-ga-ted ahsses," "pinky-dinkies," "bone-heads," "pin-heads,"...1920, Kate Stephens, chapter IV, in Life at Laurel Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.: Alumni Association of the University of Kansas, →OCLC, page 102

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Questions about half-bakeds

What is half-bakeds the plural of?
Half-bakeds is the plural of half-baked.

Words near half-bakeds in the dictionary

  1. half-awake
  2. half-back
  3. half-backs
  4. half-baked
  5. half-bakedness
  6. half-bakeds
  7. half-ball
  8. half-baptism
  9. half-baptisms
  10. half-barrier
  11. half-barriers

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