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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#STEW Category:English terms derived from Middle English#STEW stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman Category:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#STEW estouve, Old French Category:English terms derived from Old French#STEW estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin Category:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#STEW stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin Category:English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#STEW *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#STEW τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “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)Category:English lemmas#STEW Category:English nouns#STEW Category:English uncountable nouns#STEW Category:English countable nouns#STEW Category:English entries with incorrect language header#STEW Category:Pages with entries#STEW Category:Pages with 1 entry#STEW

(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#STEW) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. [14th–17th c.]
(now historical Category:English terms with historical senses#STEW) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. [from 14th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
  And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel
  And when he came to the chamber thereas this lady was, the doors of iron unlocked and unbolted. And so Sir Launcelot went into the chamber that was as hot as any stew. And there Sir Launcelot took the fairest lady by the hand that ever he saw, and she was naked as a needle
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(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#STEW) A brothel. [from 14th c.]
- 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
  [...] and the agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, then to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the Stews, or stepping to his neighbours bed, which is the common shift in this mis-fortune, or els by suffering his usefull life to wast away and be lost under a secret affliction of an unconscionable size to humane strength.
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- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel:
  And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews.
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- 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh:
  Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews.
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- 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 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.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#STEW) 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...
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(uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#STEW, countable Category:English countable nouns#STEW) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18th c.]
- 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Wordsworth Classics, published 1998, page 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.
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(Sussex Category:Sussex English#STEW) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
Synonym: stewpond
- 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
  It was used as a stew, so that the inhabitants of the castle could have fish on Fridays, and for this reason the architects had been careful not to let the drains and sewers run into it. It was stocked with fish every year.
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(US Category:American English#STEW, regional Category:Regional English#STEW) An artificial bed of oysters.
(slang Category:English slang#STEW) A state of agitated excitement, worry, or confusion.
to be in a stewCategory:English terms with usage examples#STEW
(broadcasting Category:en:Broadcasting#STEW, slang Category:English slang#STEW) Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.
mike stewCategory:English terms with usage examples#STEW

Synonyms

(food) casserole, (British Category:British English#STEW) hotpot

Coordinate terms

Descendants

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Translations

dish — see also chowder,‎ potage,‎ shambar

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Albanian: gjellë (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#STEW
Arabic: يَخْنَة f (yaḵna)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#STEW
Hijazi Arabic: يَخْني m (yaḵni)Category:Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations#STEW
Bulgarian: яхния (jahnija)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#STEW, задушено (bg) n (zadušeno)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#STEW
Catalan: guisat (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#STEW, estofat (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#STEW
Cherokee: ᎫᏅᎯ (gunvhi)Category:Terms with Cherokee translations#STEW
Chinese:
Mandarin: 燉菜 / 炖菜 (dùncài)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#STEW Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#STEW
Danish: gryderet cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#STEW, stuvning cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#STEW
Dutch: stoofpot (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#STEW
Esperanto: stufaĵo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#STEW
Finnish: laatikko (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#STEW, muhennos (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#STEW, pata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#STEW
French: ragoût (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#STEW
Galician: guiso mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#STEW, caldeirada (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#STEW, cocido (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#STEW
Georgian: ჩაშუშული (čašušuli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#STEW
German: Eintopf (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#STEW, Brei (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#STEW
Greek: στιφάδο (el) n (stifádo)Category:Terms with Greek translations#STEW, βραστό (el) n (vrastó)Category:Terms with Greek translations#STEW
Hungarian: főzelék (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#STEW
Ido: stufajoCategory:Terms with Ido translations#STEW
Irish: stobhach mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#STEW
Italian: stufato (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#STEW
Japanese: シチュー (ja) (shichū)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#STEW
Kamba: supuCategory:Terms with Kamba translations#STEW
Kikuyu: thufuCategory:Terms with Kikuyu translations#STEW
Korean: 스튜 (seutyu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#STEW, 찌개 (ko) (jjigae)Category:Terms with Korean translations#STEW
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شلە (şle)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#STEW
Latin: copadium nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#STEW
Lithuanian: troškinysCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#STEW
Luhya: kumunyuCategory:Terms with Luhya translations#STEW
Macedonian: манџа f (mandža)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#STEW, вариво n (varivo)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#STEW, чорба (mk) f (čorba)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#STEW
Malay: rendidihCategory:Terms with Malay translations#STEW, stuCategory:Terms with Malay translations#STEW
Māori: tiuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#STEW
Meru: supuCategory:Terms with Meru translations#STEW
Nahuatl:
Classical Nahuatl: āyōtlCategory:Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations#STEW, mōlliCategory:Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations#STEW
Navajo: atooʼCategory:Terms with Navajo translations#STEW
Norman: êtuivée fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#STEW, fricot mCategory:Terms with Norman translations#STEW, hachie fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#STEW, ragoût mCategory:Terms with Norman translations#STEW
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stuing m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#STEW

Nynorsk: stuing fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#STEW
Persian: خورش (fa) (xoreš)Category:Terms with Persian translations#STEW
Polish: gulasz (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#STEW, potrawka (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#STEW
Portuguese: cozido (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#STEW, ensopado (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#STEW, guisado (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#STEW
Russian: тушёное мя́со n (tušónoje mjáso)Category:Terms with Russian translations#STEW, рагу́ (ru) n (ragú)Category:Terms with Russian translations#STEW, жарко́е (ru) n (žarkóje)Category:Terms with Russian translations#STEW
Scottish Gaelic: stiubh mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#STEW, stiubha fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#STEW
Serbo-Croatian: varivo (sh) nCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#STEW
Slovene: enolončnica fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#STEW, obara fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#STEW
Spanish: guisado (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW, cocido (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW, estofado (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW, guiso (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW, shishpolá mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW (Mexico)
Swedish: stuvning (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#STEW, gryta (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#STEW
Talysh:
Asalemi: آشماش (âšmâš)Category:Terms with Talysh translations#STEW, آش (âš)Category:Terms with Talysh translations#STEW, خواروش (xâruš)Category:Terms with Talysh translations#STEW, خاروش (xâruš)Category:Terms with Talysh translations#STEW
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Ottoman Turkish: یخنی (yahni)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#STEW

excitement

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Bulgarian: вълнение (bg) n (vǎlnenie)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#STEW
German: Aufregung (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#STEW, Horror (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#STEW

Etymology 2

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#STEW Category:English terms derived from Middle English#STEW stewen, stuwen, from the noun above; and also from Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#STEW Category:English terms derived from Middle English#STEW stiven, styven (“to bathe, cook, stew”).

Verb

stew (third-person singular simple present stews, present participle stewing, simple past and past participle stewed)Category:English lemmas#STEW Category:English verbs#STEW Category:English entries with incorrect language header#STEW Category:Pages with entries#STEW Category:Pages with 1 entry#STEW

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#STEW or intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#STEW or ergative Category:English ergative verbs#STEW) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.Category:English terms with usage examples#STEW

The meat is stewing nicely.Category:English terms with usage examples#STEW
- 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Rose-Tree”, in English Fairy Tales, page 17:
  Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#STEW) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#STEW, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
  It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.
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(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#STEW, 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

Derived terms

Translations

to cook (food)

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Azerbaijani: pörtlətməkCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#STEW, buğda bişirməkCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#STEW, buğlamaqCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#STEW
Bulgarian: задушавам (bg) (zadušavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#STEW
Dutch: stoven (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#STEW, smoren (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#STEW
Esperanto: stufiCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#STEW
Finnish: hauduttaa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#STEW
French: mijoter (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#STEW
Galician: guisarCategory:Terms with Galician translations#STEW, cocer (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#STEW
German: schmoren (de)Category:Terms with German translations#STEW, dünsten (de)Category:Terms with German translations#STEW, dämpfen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#STEW
Greek: σιγοβράζω (el) (sigovrázo)Category:Terms with Greek translations#STEW, γιαχνίζω (el) (giachnízo)Category:Terms with Greek translations#STEW
Hungarian: párol (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#STEW, dinsztel (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#STEW
Ido: stufar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#STEW
Irish: stobhCategory:Terms with Irish translations#STEW
Italian: stufare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#STEW, lessare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#STEW
Japanese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Japanese#STEW
Macedonian: динста (dinsta)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#STEW, вари (vari)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#STEW
Māori: tiuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#STEW
Norman: êtuiverCategory:Terms with Norman translations#STEW
Polish: dusić (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#STEW
Portuguese: guisar (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#STEW
Romanian: găti (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#STEW, găti la capacCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#STEW, înăbuși (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#STEW (regionalism)
Russian: туши́ть (ru) impf (tušítʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#STEW, потуши́ть (ru) impf (potušítʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#STEW
Scottish Gaelic: stiubhCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#STEW, stiubhaigCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#STEW
Serbo-Croatian: dinstati (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#STEW, динстатиCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#STEW
Slovene: dušitiCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#STEW
Spanish: guisar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#STEW
Swedish: stuva (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#STEW
Tày: ấuCategory:Terms with Tày translations#STEW
Vietnamese: hầm (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#STEW, ninh (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#STEW

to brew (tea)

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Bulgarian: запарвам (zaparvam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#STEW
Dutch: thee zettenCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#STEW
Finnish: hauduttaa liikaaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#STEW
French: faire du théCategory:Terms with French translations#STEW
German: aufbrühen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#STEW
Slovene: kuhati (sl)Category:Terms with Slovene translations#STEW

to suffer under hot conditions

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to be in a state of elevated anxiety

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Etymology 3

Probably related to Middle Dutch stuven (“be dusty”) and English stive. Perhaps the same word as stew (“steam-room; dish cooked by stewing”) above.

Noun

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(Scotland Category:Scottish English#STEW and England Category:English English#STEW) A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.
- 1994, Leftare P. Delis, The Inside Passage, page 166:
  The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.
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- 2000, Alasdair K. D. Campbell, The Nessman, page 217:
  'Johnston,' Ron shouted, 'couldn't knock the stew off a bap.'
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Etymology 4

Clipping of stewardCategory:English clippings#STEW or stewardess.

Noun

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(informal Category:English informal terms#STEW) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
- 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 243:
  It is our considered and combined judgement that Germans and actors share honors for being the cheapest dates a stew can accept.
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- 1975 November 3, Mordecai Richler, “The Perils of Maureen”, in New York, volume 8, number 44, page 8:
  And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man […] .
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- 1991, Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears‎, published 1992, →ISBN, page 480:
  " […] 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."
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- 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, “Doing the Hustle”, in Texas Monthly, volume 20, number 1, →ISSN, page 52:
  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.
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Anagrams

ESWT, Tews, West, ewts, tews, west, wets

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