different between soup vs stew

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /su?p/
• (US) enPR: so?op, IPA^(key): /sup/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of zuppa. See also sop and supper.

Noun

soup (countable and uncountable, plural soups)

1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

   Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.

   • c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:

     Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

   1. (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
   2. (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
2. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
   1. (slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
   2. (US, slang) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
   3. (cant) Dope (illicit drug, used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
   4. (photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
   5. (biology) Liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.

      primordial soup

   6. (Britain, informal, often with "the") An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
   7. (surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.

Derived terms

Hyponyms

Related terms

• supper

See also

• porridge
• stew

Translations

Descendants

• Thai: ??? (súp)

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
   • 1904 October, East is East and West is West, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236:

     "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."

   • 2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152:

     She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
2. (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
   • 1970 December, in The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:

     That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]

   • 1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page:

     "Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."

   • 1998, Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight:

     And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English soupen, from Old English s?pan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *s?pan?. More at sup.

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. Alternative form of sup

Etymology 3

From Middle English soupe, from Old English s?pe (“sup; draught”).

Noun

soup (plural soups)

1. Alternative form of sup

Etymology 4

From Middle English swopen, from Old English sw?pan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipan? (“to sweep”). More at sweep.

Alternative forms

• soop

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (obsolete) To breathe out; to draw out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) To sweep.

Anagrams

• POUs, PUOs, Pous, opus, pous, puso

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)

1. (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. [14^th-17^thc.]
2. (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. [from 14^thc.]
3. (archaic) A brothel. [from 14^thc.]
   • 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.

4. (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...

5. (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18^thc.]
   • 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.

6. (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
7. (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
8. (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
4. (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)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Tews, West, ewts, tews, west, wets