[ UK /dˈə‍ʊi/ ]
[ US /ˈdoʊi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
    the cake fell; it's a doughy mess
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How To Use doughy In A Sentence

  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • She was solid, a block of doughy flesh, ample and tactile and pleasantly odorous.
  • They were a little too doughy to be the traditional 'baps' that are served at the fast food joints, but they sufficed. The Fresh Loaf
  • Eighteen-year-old Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, on mispronouncing veteran rock star David Bowie's name (it rhymes with "doughy," not "Howie") while announcing the Grammy nominees for best male rock vocal performance Perspectives
  • In fact, at various boat shows vendors talked among themselves just to break the tedium, and I could consume a giant doughy pretzel without any fear a passerby would catch me with my mouth full. Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy
  • The dumplings are steamed rather than grilled or pan-fried (this is apparently the traditional Beijing way), which makes them more like Japanese gyoza than the doughy things you often get.
  • Bena is convinced that there's something seriously wrong with their doughy, listless baby, but Ted tells her she's crazy and to shut up about it. As The Pages Turn
  • You pull at the doughy lips and dip them into the runny, eggy, cheesy effluvia. Times, Sunday Times
  • But sometimes, usually at night, the president became someone else -- call him "Mr. Bill" -- a doughy, needy mass of uncurbed appetites and fits of irrationality. The Two Mr. Clintons
  • Add water and mix with a knife to a doughy consistency.
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