Crossword clues for underdone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rare \Rare\, a. [Compar. Rarer (r[^a]r"[~e]r); superl. Rarest.] [Cf. AS. hr[=e]r, or E. rare early. [root]18.] Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.
--Dryden.
Note: This word is in common use in the United States, but in England its synonym underdone is preferred.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. insufficiently cooked; undercooked
WordNet
adj. insufficiently cooked [syn: half-baked]
Usage examples of "underdone".
The turkey was always tough and stringy, the stuffing dry and mealy, the string beans underdone and a brilliant baking-soda green, the sweet potatoes too sweet and sticky with Karo.
Vanya dined alone, and so preoccupied was the Bishop that he might have been eating sausages along with his Field Catalysts instead of the delicacies of peacocks tongue and lizards tail which he barely tasted and never noticed were underdone.
Niall carved himself some underdone roast beef from a joint, and poured a cup of papaya juice.