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Definition of doughy : Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

Synonyms:

miry, inert, sloppy, muddy, sluggish, sloughy, waterlogged, squashy, marshy, mucky, swampy, heavy, boggy, quaggy, torpid

juicy, spongy, overripe, ripe, pasty, pulpy, squishy, soft, pureed, soggy, fleshy, mashed, mushy

Usage examples:

• Put the oatmeal, with a little salt, into a basin, and mix with it quickly a teacupful of the fat broth: it should not run into one doughy mass, but form knots. - "The Book of Household Management", Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
• As an old neighbour explained to me, " You can cut the newest bread with a wooden knife, whereas the doughy crumb of the bread would stick to a steel one." - "Grain and Chaff from an English Manor", Arthur H. Savory.
• This form will be marked by great constitutional disturbance, and the eruption coming out earlier than in the milder form; instead of being distinct, that is, each pimple standing distinct and separate one from the other, they will coalesce, and appear flat and doughy, not prominent: they will more particularly run into each other on the face, where they will form one continuous bag, which soon becoming a sore, will discharge copiously. - "The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease.", Thomas Bull, M.D..