Having the soft, thick, and slightly sticky texture or consistency of dough; soft and pale in appearance (especially when describing skin or complexion).
From 'dough' + adjectival suffix '-y' (from Old English '-ig'). The suffix creates adjectives meaning 'having the quality of' or 'resembling' the noun it attaches to.
Interestingly, 'doughy' is often used to describe a pale, unhealthy complexion—which tells us something about how bakers historically looked compared to people who worked outdoors, spending all day inside among the flour dust!
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