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amalgamation
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amalgam?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mæl???me???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: a?mal?ga?ma?tion
Noun
amalgamation (countable and uncountable, plural amalgamations)
- The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
- The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
- (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
- (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. [in the US, supplanted after 1863 by miscegenation; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s]
Related terms
- amalgam
- amalgamate
Translations
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amalgam?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.mal.?a.ma.sj??/
- Homophone: amalgamations
Noun
amalgamation f (plural amalgamations)
- amalgamation
Further reading
- “amalgamation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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stew
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /st???/
- (UK) IPA(key): /stju?/, /st?u?/
- (US) enPR: sto?o, IPA(key): /stu/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Hyphenation: stew
Etymology 1
From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extuf?re, from ex- + Ancient Greek ????? (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from ???? (túph?, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.
Noun
stew (usually uncountable, plural stews)
- (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. [14th-17thc.]
- (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. [from 14thc.]
- (archaic) A brothel. [from 14thc.]
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews.
- 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh
- Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews.
- 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, 2006, p.37:
- Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew, they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
- 1650, Anthony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James I
- But it was so plotted betwixt the Lady, her Husband, and Bristol, that instead of that beauty, he had a notorious Stew sent him, and surely his carriage there was so lascivious...
- 1650, Anthony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James I
- (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18thc.]
- 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
- I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew.
- 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
- (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
- (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
- (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
Synonyms
- (food) casserole, (Britain) hotpot
Coordinate terms
- casserole
- cassoulet
- goulash
- ragout
Derived terms
- cowboy stew
- Irish stew
- in a stew
- sonofabitch stew / son-of-a-gun stew
- stewpot
See also
- stew pond on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- List of stews on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
Verb
stew (third-person singular simple present stews, present participle stewing, simple past and past participle stewed)
- (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
- I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
- The meat is stewing nicely.
- (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
Synonyms
- (suffer under hot conditions): bake, boil, sweat, swelter
- (be in a state of elevated anxiety): brood, fret, sweat, worry
Translations
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.
Noun
stew (plural stews)
- A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
- 1975 November 3, Mordecai Richler, "The Perils of Maureen", New York, volume 8, number 44, page 8 [1]:
- And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man […] .
- 1991, Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears, 1992 edition, ?ISBN, page 480 [2]:
- " […] We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
- "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew, doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
- 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", Texas Monthly, ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [3]:
- Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.
- 1975 November 3, Mordecai Richler, "The Perils of Maureen", New York, volume 8, number 44, page 8 [1]:
Anagrams
- Tews, West, ewts, tews, west, wets
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