About The Word Stew
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What's The Definition Of Stew?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Stew: brood | fret | grizzle | grudge | lather | sulk | sweat | swither Related Terms | Find terms related to Stew: 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 Stew In Webster's Dictionary \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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