stew
(noun) food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither
(noun) agitation resulting from active worry; “don’t get in a stew”; “he’s in a sweat about exams”
stew
(verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; “Stew the vegetables in wine”
stew, grudge
(verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
grizzle, brood, stew
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.]
(obsolete) A prostitute.
(uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18thc.]
(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.
• (food) casserole, (British) hotpot
• casserole
• cassoulet
• goulash
• ragout
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.
(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.
• (suffer under hot conditions): bake, boil, sweat, swelter
• (be in a state of elevated anxiety): brood, fret, sweat, worry
stew (plural stews)
A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
• Tews, West, ewts, tews, west, wets
Stew
A diminutive of the male given name Stewart
• Tews, West, ewts, tews, west, wets
Source: Wiktionary
Stew, n. Etym: [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.] Etym: [OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. Ă©tuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. Ă©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.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
Stew, n. Etym: [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 Ætna 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 February 2025
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
