baked

half-baked

(informal)

not thought about or planned carefully It was just another half-baked scheme of his - it was never going to work.

baked

1. mod. sunburned. I was out in the sun until I got totally baked.

2. mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. I’ve never seen anybody so baked.

half-baked

1. mod. badly thought out. It would have been approved if it weren’t so half-baked.

2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred got himself sort of half-baked every Saturday night.

If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake

An expression of delighted surprise at finding someone whose appearance was unanticipated. The title of a 1950 hit record by Eileen Barton, the phrase quickly caught on, and for at least a decade thereafter anyone who appeared where least expected was likely to be greeted with “If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake.”

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sinta	SEEN-tah	Indonesian, Javanese
Hadrian	HAY-dree-ən (English)	History
Masoumeh	-	Persian
Marcell	-	Hungarian, German
Gargi	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Bengali
Magda	MAHK-dah (German), MAHKH-dah (Dutch), MAHG-dah (Polish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Romanian, Portuguese