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stewed

   [stood, styood]
adjective
1.
cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.
2.
Slang. intoxicated; drunk.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see stew1, -ed2

Related forms
un·stewed, adjective

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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, especially 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; Middle English stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath < Middle French estuver, verbal derivative of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove1

Related forms
stew·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. See boil1. 5. ragout.

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


  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) definition


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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