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stew

noun
/stʃʉː//stjuː/UK/stu/US

Etymology

From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.

  1. derived from τῦφος
  2. derived from *extufāre✻
  3. derived from stupha
  4. derived from estuve — “bath, bathhouse”
  5. derived from estouve
  6. inherited from stewe

Definitions

  1. A cooking-dish used for boiling

    A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

  2. A heated bath-room or steam-room

    A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

  3. A brothel.

    • And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews.
    • Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A prostitute.

      • But it was so plotted betwixt the Lady, her Husband, and Bristol, that instead of that beauty, he had a notorious Stew sent him, and surely his carriage there was so lascivious...

    2. A dish cooked by stewing.

      • I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew.

    3. A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

      • It was used as a stew, so that the inhabitants of the castle could have fish on Fridays, and for this reason the architects had been careful not to let the drains and sewers run into it. It was stocked with fish every year.

    4. An artificial bed of oysters.

    5. A state of agitated excitement, worry, or confusion.

      • to be in a stew

    6. Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.

      • mike stew

    7. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

      • I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
      • The meat is stewing nicely.
      • Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper.

    8. To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

    9. To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

      • It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.

    10. To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

    11. A cloud of fine particles or droplets

      A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.

      • The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.
      • 'Johnston,' Ron shouted, 'couldn't knock the stew off a bap.'

    12. A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

      • It is our considered and combined judgement that Germans and actors share honors for being the cheapest dates a stew can accept.
      • And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man[…].
      • "[…]We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane." "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew, doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."

    13. A diminutive of the male given name Stewart.

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Derived

beef stew, brown stew, brown stew chicken, Brunswick stew, cowboy stew, cream stew, Devonshire stew, Exeter stew, Frogmore stew, graveyard stew, hellstew, hobo stew, horse and rabbit stew, hunter's stew, in a stew, Irish stew, Karelian stew, kick up a stew, Lowcountry stew, mike stew, mulligan stew, perpetual stew, rascal stew, red-red stew, shearer's stew, SOB stew, son of a bitch stew, son-of-a-bitch stew, sonofabitch stew, son-of-a-gun stew, stewbum, stewish, stewlike, stew on a shingle, stewp, stewpan, stew-pée, stew pond, stewpot, stewy · +10 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stew. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stew. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at stew

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA