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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doughy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blake was a doughy man with a big belly.
▪ Blended with these smells and what was most apparent to Sally was the strong doughy odor of her fingers.
▪ If you were to eat one right away, it would be doughy and underdone.
▪ The hand was still doughy when Miguel shook it, weak and spineless.
▪ The picture of Joe's doughy white body seemed to be imprinted on his mind.
▪ The thing stayed where it was: a small, grey, pear shape made of some doughy material.
▪ They have a pillowy consistency and a soft, slightly doughy center.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doughy

Doughy \Dough"y\ (d[=o]"[y^]), a. Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

Wiktionary
doughy

a. 1 having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as 2 # pale and flabby 3 # soft and heavy

WordNet
doughy
  1. adj. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess" [syn: soggy]

  2. [also: doughiest, doughier]

Usage examples of "doughy".

Their crania were doughy and distended, as if their unshaped brains bubbled over.

Mopsa, the Sealyham, sat at her side, his eyes, glistening with greed, raised to those doughy arms.

She was only an exaggeration of what the other girls all knew they could expect themselves to one day become, and so, embarrassed and ashamed of their own fascination, they stole glances, took furtive glimpses of her, were irresistibly drawn to the sight of her bare flesh--of the dark smudge of hair in her armpits and on her ankles and between her legs, of her milky, blue-veined breasts floating, cloudlike, in the big cups of her thick-strapped rubber and wire and nylon bra, of the firm mound of her belly, her rounded shoulders, the damp doughy creases in her neck, her meaty arms, her bare skin, clear and creamy--as she changed back into her school clothes again at the end of the physical education class.

She hooked her heels over the rail and scooped up curry with a torn scrap of doughy bread, scent of capsaicin already stinging her eyes.

She had a comical bulge on her nose, and she was dumpily built, with great doughy thighs, and I imagine she had not much hope of marriage even to a man of her own tlacotli class.

Qwilleran preferred his coffee black, but he accepted cream, and as he bit into a doughy cinnamon bun his gaze wandered to the French windows.

The cookie sheets went into the oven, and the sweet, doughy smell wafted through the kitchen.

His doughy fingers indicated the north wall, the Mourners' Bench, along which waited apathetically a score of haggard prostitutes of both sexes.

Louie bought two doughy slices of pepperoni pizza from the Turkish vendor who was arguing in French with his Nigerian helper, and passed one to Vince.

When weather drove her from the foredeck, she went to the ship's galley, where she revealed a gift for turning hardtack into a sort of doughy pudding much favored by the crew.