Irish stew
noun
a stew usually made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc.
Origin of Irish stew
1First recorded in 1805–15
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How to use Irish stew in a sentence
I seldom after it have an appetite, even for Irish-stew or toad-in-the-hole.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. KingstonUse boiled peanuts instead of nutmese and raw nut butter, and rice (not too much) in place of potato, in Nut Irish stew.
The Laurel Health Cookery | Evora Bucknum PerkinsNo; but he has been waiting half an hour for the Irish stew which I have just annexed.
British Dictionary definitions for Irish stew
Irish stew
noun
a white stew made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc
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