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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)

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

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stovies

English

Etymology

From a blend of stoved (stewed) + tatties (potatoes).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Source? Why not just from stove + the common Scottish -ie diminutive?”)

Noun

stovies pl (plural only)

  1. A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
    • 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,
      At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.
    • 2008, Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please, page 44,
      During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.
    • 2012, Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling, AuthorHouse UK, page 8,
      They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies’ might be. Meg soon explained that stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.

Anagrams

  • Soviets, soviets, sovites

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