halbbacken

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German

Etymology

Equivalent to halb +‎ gebacken with shortening as in altbacken. Though it is older, regular use seems to date from the late 20th century, probably after English half-baked.

Pronunciation

Adjective

halbbacken (strong nominative masculine singular halbbackener, comparative halbbackener, superlative am halbbackensten)

  1. (rare) half-baked
    Synonyms: unausgegoren, unausgereift, halbgar
    • 1878, Johann Weiser, “Gedanken über die körperliche Erziehung der Mädchen”, in Sechster Jahres-Bericht der achtklassigen Bürgerschule für Mädchen in der königl. Hauptstadt Olmütz im Schuljahre 1877/8, Olmütz, Austria (now Olomouc, Czech Republic), page 8:
      Ebenso sicher, als das weibliche Geschlecht vermöge seiner zarteren physischen Organisation nicht berufen ist, auf die Gestaltung seiner Lebensverhältnisse energischen Einfluß auszuüben, ist es ein schweres Vergehen, die Mädchen statt in die gesunde Athmosphäre [sic] des Lebens in die Brutöfen der Convenienz- und Modethorheiten zu pferchen, aus denen an Stelle der selbstbewußten Kraft halbbackene Wesen hervorgehen, welche sich in jeden gelehrten Disput einlassen, nebenbei die Wände ihres bisherigen Verließes [sic] für die Enden der Erdaxe [sic] ansehen, und vom ersten Bad im irdischen Flußwasser einen zeitlebens anhaftenden Stockschnupfen davontragen.
      While it is certain that the female sex, by virtue of its more delicate physical composition, is not called to exert energetic influence on its conditions of life, it is just as certainly a grave offence to pen the girls up, not in the healthy atmosphere of life, but in the hotbeds of the follies of social convention and fashion. Out of these, instead of self-confident vigour, there must emerge half-baked beings, who involve themselves in any learned dispute, regard the walls of their hitherto existing dungeon as the ends of the earth’s axis, and from the first bath in earthly stream water sustain a chronic cold to persist for the rest of their lives.

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