more stewed

adjective

cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.

Slang. intoxicated; drunk.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see stew¹, -ed²

Related forms

un·stewed, adjective

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stewed (stjuːd)

—*adj*
1.	(of meat, fruit, etc) cooked by stewing
2.	(Brit) (of tea) having a bitter taste through having been left to infuse for too long
3.	a slang word for drunk

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Word Origin & History

stew

c.1400, "to bathe in a steam bath," from O.Fr. estuver (Fr. étuver) "bathe, stew," of uncertain origin. Common Romanic (cf. Sp. estufar, It. stufare), possibly from V.L. *extufare "evaporate," from ex- "out" + *tufus "vapor, steam," from Gk. typhos "smoke." Cf. O.E. stuf-bæþ "hot-air

bath;" see stove. Meaning "to boil slowly, to cook meat by simmering it in liquid" is attested from c.1420. The meaning "to be left to the consequences of one's actions" is from 1656, from fig. expression to stew in one's own juices. Slang stewed "drunk" first attested 1737.

stew

c.1300, "vessel for cooking," from stew (v.). Later "heated room" (late 14c.). The noun meaning "stewed meat with vegetables" is first recorded 1756; Irish stew is attested from 1814. The obsolete slang meaning "brothel" (mid-14c., usually plural, stews) is from an earlier

sense of "public bath house," carried over from O.Fr. and reflecting the reputation of such houses.

Slang Dictionary

stewed (up) definition

and stew

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. (See also stew (sense 1).) : The kid was stewed up and scared to death of what his parents were going to do to him.

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