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klitschig

doughy, soggy, underbaked

adjective KLITCH-ikh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Textures

Also means

unpleasantly sticky and dense

Usage Note

klitschig describes bread or baked goods that are dense, sticky, and raw-feeling inside due to underbaking. A klitschiges Brot has not developed a proper open crumb. The term is used critically in German baking contexts.

Examples

"Das Brot war klitschig, weil es zu kurz gebacken wurde."

Natural Translation

The bread was doughy because it was baked for too short a time.

Literal Translation

The bread was doughy, because it too short baked was.

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