Meaning of STEW
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- [n] food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
- [n] agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
- [v] cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine"
- [v] bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
- [v] be in a huff; be silent or sullen
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| | Synonyms: | | brood, fret, grizzle, grudge, lather, sulk, sweat, swither |
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| | See Also: | | agitation, be, beef stew, Brunswick stew, burgoo, chicken purloo, cook, dish, fish stew, fricassee, goulash, gulyas, hot pot, hotchpotch, hotpot, Hungarian goulash, Irish burgoo, Irish stew, jug, lobscouse, lobscuse, lobster stew, mulligan, mulligan stew, olla podrida, oyster stew, poilu, pot-au-feu, pottage, purloo, ragout, resent, scouse, slumgullion, Spanish burgoo | |
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\Stew\, n. [Cf. {Stow}.]
1. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a
vivarium. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. Evelyn.
2. An artificial bed of oysters. [Local, U.S.]
\Stew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stewed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stewing}.] [OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. ['e]tuver, fr. OF.
estuve, F. ['e]tuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a
bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See
{Stove}, and cf. {Stive} to stew.]
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to
seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire,
without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew
apples.
\Stew\, v. i.
To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat
and moisture.
\Stew\, n. [OE. stue, stuwe, OF. estuve. See {Stew}, v. t.]
1. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes
are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.]
As burning [AE]tna from his boiling stew Doth belch
out flames. --Spenser.
The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any
armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.
--Abp. Abbot.
2. A brothel; -- usually in the plural. --Bacon. South.
There be that hate harlots, and never were at the
stews. --Aschman.
3. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Sir A. Weldon.
4. A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
5. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry;
confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.]
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