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stew

1  [stoo, styoo]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
–verb (used without object)
2. to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
3. Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss: He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day.
4. to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.
–noun
5. a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, esp. a mixture of meat and vegetables.
6. Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
7. a brothel; whorehouse.
8. stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
9. Obsolete. a vessel for boiling or stewing.
—Idiom
10. stew in one's own juice, to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath < MF estuver, v. deriv. of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove 1

Related forms:
stew⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See boil 1 . 5. ragout.
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stew

  1. n.
    a drinking bout. : These frequent stews must stop. You will ruin your health.
  2. n.
    a drunkard. : There are three stews sleeping in the alley.

  3. Go to stewed (up). :
  4. n.
    a stewardess or steward on an airplane. (Although officially replaced by flight attendat, this term and steward(ess) are still in use.) : My sister is a stew for a major airline.
  5. in.
    to fret. : I spent most of last night stewing about my job.
  6. n.
    a fretful state. : Don't work yourself into a stew.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

stew  (n.)
c.1305, "vessel for cooking," from stew (v.). Later "heated room" (c.1374). The noun meaning "stewed meat with vegetables" is first recorded 1756; Irish stew is attested from 1814. The obsolete slang meaning "brothel" (1362, usually plural, stews) is from an earlier sense of "public bath house," carried over from O.Fr. and reflecting the reputation of such houses.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

stew in one's own juice

Suffer the consequences of one's actions, as in He's run into debt again, but this time we're leaving him to stew in his own juice. This metaphoric term alludes to cooking something in its own liquid. Versions of it, such as fry in one's own grease, date from Chaucer's time, but the present term dates from the second half of the 1800s.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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