STEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stew mean? 

• STEW (noun)
  The noun STEW has 2 senses:

1. agitation resulting from active worry

2. food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

  Familiarity information: STEW used as a noun is rare.

• STEW (verb)
  The verb STEW has 3 senses:

1. be in a huff; be silent or sullen

2. bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

3. cook slowly and for a long time in liquid

  Familiarity information: STEW used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agitation resulting from active worry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fret; lather; stew; sweat; swither

Context example:

he's in a sweat about exams

Hypernyms ("stew" is a kind of...):

agitation (a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance)

Derivation:

stew (be in a huff; be silent or sullen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("stew" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stew"):

bigos (a Polish stew of cabbage and meat)

slumgullion (a thin stew of meat and vegetables)

pot-au-feu (traditional French stew of vegetables and beef)

ratatouille (a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings)

ragout (well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables)

beef stew (a stew made with beef)

fricassee (pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings)

fish stew (a stew made with fish)

lobscouse; lobscuse; scouse (a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors)

lobster stew (diced lobster meat in milk or cream)

oyster stew (oysters in cream)

Irish stew (meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions)

hot pot; hotpot (a stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot)

hotchpotch (a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables)

goulash; gulyas; Hungarian goulash (a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika)

chicken purloo; poilu; purloo (thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.)

Irish burgoo; mulligan; mulligan stew (Irish version of burgoo)

olla podrida; Spanish burgoo (Spanish version of burgoo)

burgoo (thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States)

Brunswick stew (spicy southern specialty: chicken (or small game) with corn and tomatoes and lima beans and okra and onions and potatoes)

pottage (a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat)

Derivation:

stew (cook slowly and for a long time in liquid)

• STEW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stew    ... he / she / it stews   
Past simple: stewed   
Past participle: stewed   
-ing form: stewing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

brood; grizzle; stew

Hypernyms (to "stew" is one way to...):

brood; pout; sulk (be in a huff and display one's displeasure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

stew (agitation resulting from active worry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

grudge; stew

Hypernyms (to "stew" is one way to...):

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Stew the vegetables in wine

Hypernyms (to "stew" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stew"):

jug (stew in an earthenware jug)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs stew the vegetables

Derivation:

stew (food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables)

stewing (cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil)

 Context examples 

First one out of an Irish stew.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other items spotted in the stew of plastic include bottles, plates, buoys, ropes and even a toilet seat.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

He stopped Alleyne to ask him whether it was not true that there was a hostel somewhere in those parts which was especially famous for the stewing of eels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The findings are limited because data came from questionnaires that did not include certain types of meats (such as pork and lamb) and certain cooking methods (such as stewing and stir-frying).

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He paid a dollar each on account to the four tradesmen, and in his kitchen fried steak and onions, made coffee, and stewed a large pot of prunes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A pair of hot roast fowls—from the pastry-cook's; a dish of stewed beef, with vegetables—from the pastry-cook's; two little corner things, as a raised pie and a dish of kidneys—from the pastrycook's; a tart, and (if I liked) a shape of jelly—from the pastrycook's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There is a goodly hostel near the west gate, which is famed for the stewing of spiced pullets,” remarked Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, when I once asked Dora, with an eye to the cookery-book, what she would do, if we were married, and I were to say I should like a nice Irish stew, she replied that she would tell the servant to make it; and then clapped her little hands together across my arm, and laughed in such a charming manner that she was more delightful than ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)