ppl. adj. (common).—Collapsed; exhausted; done up; e.g., ‘toward the end of the course the crew were regularly BAKED.’
HALF- (or DOUGH-) BAKED, adj. phr. (colloquial).—1. Inconclusive; imperfect. Also (2) dull-witted, SOFT (q.v.): see HALF-BAKED, adding quots. 1864 and 1866.
1592. J. LYLY, Midas, ii. 2. A reason dow-BAKED.
1864. Notes and Queries, 3 S., vi. 494. 2. He is only HALF-BAKED—put in with the bread, and taken out with the cakes.
d. 1866. FAIRHOLT [LILLY, Works, ii. 264. Note]. The peasantry in the midlands say of an idiotic person, ‘he is only HALF-BAKED.’
