half baked

See also: halfbaked and half-baked

English

Adjective

half baked (comparative more half baked, superlative most half baked)

1. Alternative form of half-baked.
   • 1936 August, Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 14 October 1938, →OCLC, page 153:

     If we would have hired a good mechanic instead of a half baked kikuyu driver, he would have checked the oil and never burned out that bearing in the truck.