"Par bake" (bread); Dorgan on Journal-American (!)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:37 PM -0500 3/10/04, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:53:16AM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>>  (OED)
>>  parbake, v.
>>  nonce-wd.
>  >     trans. To bake partially, half bake.
>>

Thanks for calling the entry to our attention.  I'll try referring to
someone's parbaked ideas next time I get the chance.

Larry Horn

>  > 1885 MRS. RITCHIE Mrs. Dymond I. vi, Everything was so hot
>>and so glaring that very few people were about; a few
>>par-baked figures went quickly by.
>
>The revised OED entry now has a first cite from 1841 (in a
>non-figurative context), and the note "_rare_ before 20th
>cent.". If you have something before that 1985 Factiva
>quote, it would fill a big gap.
>
>Jesse "Yes, someone reads these" Sheidlower
>OED