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stewed

  [stood, styood]
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–adjective
1. cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.
2. Slang. intoxicated; drunk.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; see stew 1 , -ed 2

stew

1  [stoo, styoo]
–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   (stōō, styōō)   
v.   stewed, stew·ing, stews

v.   tr.
To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.
v.   intr.

  1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering. See Synonyms at boil1.

  2. Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

  3. Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See Synonyms at brood.

n.  

    1. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.

    2. A mixture likened to this dish.

  2. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys.

  3. Archaic A brothel. Often used in the plural.


[Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūpāre, *extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever; see typhus).]
stew'y adj.
stewed   (stōōd, styōōd)   
adj.  

  1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes.

  2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
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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stewed (up)

and stew
  1. 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.
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  (v.)
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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