Stew

Definition: Stew

Stew

Noun

1. Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams".

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

Verb

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; "Stew the vegetables in wine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Stew" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an estate keeper".

Date "stew" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

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STEW

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Synonyms: Stew

Calefaction

Boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags.

Difficulty

Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.

Excitability

Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Heat

Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.

Impurity

Seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello.

Pain

Annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre; mauvais quart d'heur.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Crosswords: Stew

There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

This is a great stew, what's in it (Track of the Moon Beast; writing credit: Bill Finger; Charles Sinclair)

And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)

You can't put wine in Hobo stew! (Troop Beverly Hills; writing credit: Pamela Norris)

It's, uhm, stew. (Ravenous; writing credit: Ted Griffin)

To see someone in such a stew for me (It's Bad For Me; performing artist: The Roches)

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too (1969)

All This and Rabbit Stew (1950)

Fixing a Stew (1934)

Irish Stew (1930)

Tricksters and Puppy Stew Redskins (2000)

Springfield Soul Stew (performing artist: The Simpsons)

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Books

• Irish Stew! (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Animaniacs: Animaniacs Stew (reference)

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Music

• The Best of Redd Foxx: Comedy Stew (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Scanpan 10-Inch Covered Stew Pot (reference)

• Scanpan 11-Inch Stew Pot with Lid (reference)

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Parent Teacher Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina on opening day of tobacco market to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell Count. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican miner's wife making stew. Scotts Run, Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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IITYWYBAD? Down at one end the cooking plates, pots of stew, potatoes, pot roast, roast beef, gray roast pork waiting to be sliced

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Travel

Colombia

Some typical Colombian dishes include: ajiaco (a potato and chicken stew), lechona (pork dish), frijoles (beans) and tamales. (references)

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Expressions using "stew": be in a stew ♦ beef stew ♦ belgian beef stew ♦ Brunswick stew ♦ chicken stew ♦ fish stew ♦ get in a stew ♦ in a stew ♦ irish stew ♦ let him stew in his own juice ♦ let smb. stew in his own juice ♦ lobster stew ♦ meat stew ♦ mulligan stew ♦ mutton stew ♦ onion stew ♦ oyster stew ♦ pepper stew ♦ stew meat ♦ swedish beef stew ♦ turkey stew. Additional references.

Beginning with "stew": Stew-blot, stew-crock, stew-pan, stew-pot.

Ending with "stew": pot-stew.

Albanian

shter (drain, exhaust, spend), ziej (boil, boil over, effervesce, poach, seethe, simmer), telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, trouble, worry), mish i shterur, merak (anxiety, care, carefulness, concern, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, unrest, worry), gjyvec, bëj çomlek. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان في خطر, ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏طها (cook, curry, smother), ‏خنة (twang). (various references)

Basque

lapikokoa. (various references)

Blackfoot

stámiksaoo'sin. (various references)

Bulgarian 

яхния (pottage), увирам (melt, melt away), смесица от различни неща, рибарник (fishpond, hatchery, nursery, piscina), тревожа се, вертеп (den, hell, joint, kip, pandemonium, shebang), варено, зубря (dig, grind, mug, swot), задушено месо (braise, pot roast), задушавам (asphyxiate, braise, choke, damp, jug, jugulate, overlie, poach, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino). (various references)

Chinese 

燉 , 熬 (endure, to boil, to simmer), 炖煮的食物. (various references)

Czech

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), ragú (ragout), kompotovat, dusit se (choke, choke up, stifle, suffocate), dusit (braise, mute, steam, suffocate), dušené maso (chowder), dušená zelenina. (various references)

Danish

ragout (ragout), gullasch (goulash). (various references)

Dutch

goulash (goulash). (various references)

Esperanto

stufaĵo, raguo (ragout), gulaŝo (goulash). (various references)

Farsi 

نگرانی (Anxiety, Pine, Solicitude, Umbrage, Worry), گرمی (Ardor, Glow, Heat, Mettle, Rut, Warmth, Zeal, Zing), تاس کباب , اهسته پختن , اهسته جوشانیدن , دم کردن (Brew, Infuse), داغی . (various references)

Finnish

muhentaa, muhennos, hautua (be bathed, be fomented, draw, steam), hauduttaa (simmer). (various references)

French

ragoût. (various references)

German

eintopfgericht. (various references)

Greek 

στιφάδο. (various references)

Guarani

pucherorã (for stew). (various references)

Haitian Creole

ragou, bouyon. (various references)

Hebrew 

מא�"�", לא�"ות (evaporate, pot roast, steam, vaporize), לבשל (boil, cook), תבשיל (cooked food, dish), בית בשת (brothel, pudenda, whorehouse), � זי�" (broth, mess, porridge, pottage). (various references)

Hungarian

ragu (casserole, ragout), pörkölt (goulash), zűrzavar (anarchism, babel, chaos, cock-up, commotion, derangement, disarray, disorder, hassle, hubbub, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurly-burly, melee, mess-up, mix, mix-up, pandemonium, panic, picnic, screw-up, shambles, skein, tangled skein, upturn), párolt hús (bouilli), haltartó medence. (various references)

Icelandic

ragú (ragout). (various references)

Irish

stobhach. (various references)

Italian

cibreo (ragout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鍋物 (food cooked in a pot), 煮込み (hodgepodge), シチジル酸 (chic, cytidylic acid, ship, Ship American Policy, sickness bag, sit-in, sitting room, situation, six nine, soixante-neuf). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なべもの (food cooked in a pot), に�"み (hodgepodge), シチュー . (various references)

Korean 

스튜. (various references)

Manx

thie streebeeys, broish (farrago, miscellany, oatcake in milk, soup with bread included), broie (boil, effervesce, effervescence, overdo, parch, seethe). (various references)

Maya

oon-sikil-keeh (venison stew). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewstay.(various references)

Portuguese

guisado (haricot, ragout, salmagundi, salmi). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

caldeirada. (various references)

Quechua

chhanqa. (various references)

Romanian

strâmtoare (awkwardness, bottle-neck, clutch, constraint, extremity, fix, gorge, gullet, gut, jam, loss, narrow, narrows, necessity, scrape, sound, Strait, trouble, unpleasant, want), se fierbe înãbuşit, tocanã (fricassee, goulash, haricot, ragout), mâncare înãbuşitã, bordel (bawdy house, brothel), a-l trece nãduşelile, încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, encumbrance, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mess, mire, mishmash, morass, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, scrape, tangle, trouble, upset). (various references)

Russian 

тушеное мясо (braise, pot roast), тушеная рыба, тушиться, тушить рагу, тушить (blow out, braise, put out, quench, snuff out, stews, turn out), томить (exhaust, steam), волнение (agitation, commotion, disturbance, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, excitement, fermentation, flutter, gurgitation, heartbeat, heave, perturbation, stirring, throb, tizzies, tizzy, turbulence, unrest). (various references)

Sepedi

seta
huu. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sekirati se, uzbuđenost (excitation, state, tizzy), ragu (olio, ragout), paprikaš (fricassee, haricot, hash, salmagundi), izdinstati. (various references)

Sicilian

stufatu. (various references)

Spanish

estofado de carne húngaro (goulash), estofado (hotpot, quilted, stewed). (various references)

Swedish

stuvning (stowage). (various references)

Turkish

sıcaktan boğulmak, sıcak basmak (be hot, swelter), yahni (gallimaufry, ragout), kendi suyunda pişirmek, kapama (closing, closure, covering, enclosure, heaviness, inclosure, internment, obstruction, obturation, sealing, shutoff, shutting, shutting down, turning off), kapağı kapalı ve ağır ateşte pişirmek, kısık ateşte pişirmek, istiridye havuzu, genelev (bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordel, bordello, brothel, call house, disorderly house, house of ill fame, house of ill repute, whorehouse), güveç (casserole, crock, hot pot, marmite, Olla, pipkin, stewpan), endişelenmek (be worried, bother about, care, feel uneasy about smth., fret, mind, sweat blood, tremble, worry), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, suspense, uneasiness, worry), balıkları canlı saklama havuzu. (various references)

Ukrainian

рибна сажалка (piscina, piscine), хвилюватися (bother, care, create, effervesce, fidget, flutter, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, throb, wave, welter), тушкуватися, тушкувати (ragout), тушонка, знемагати (languish, pine away, sicken, yearn), занепоко�"ння (concern, discomposure, fash, harass, harassment, qualm, restlessness, uneasiness, worriment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bối rối (abashment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment, fuddle, perplexity, puzzle, trepidation). (various references)

typhos. (various references)

estuver, hochepot. (various references)

pot pourri. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stew": steward, stewarded, stewardess, stewardesses, stewarding, stewards, stewardship, stewardships, stewbum, stewbums, stewed, stewing, stewpan, stewpans, stews. (additional references)

Words containing "stew": wastewater, wastewaters, wasteway, wasteways. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astew, ptew, saew, sbew, scew, sdew, sfew, sgew, siew, smew, soew, sqew, ssew, Stacwq, ste, stea, steaw, steb, stec, stef, steh, stei, stej, stek, sten, steo, steq, steu, stev, stewd, stewy, stex, stez, s'the, sthew, stiq, stowl, stown, stowt, stue, stuw, suew, svew, swet, swew, sxew, szew. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tews, west, wets.

-1 letter: set, sew, tew, wet.

-2 letters: es, et, we.

+1 letter: newts, stews, strew, sweat, sweet, swept, tawse, thews, trews, twaes, waste, weest, weets, wefts, welts, wests, whets, wites, wrest, wytes.

+2 letters: bestow, etwees, fewest, lowest, newest, owlets, pewits, rawest, rewets, stewed, stowed, strewn, strews, swathe, sweats, sweaty, sweets, swithe, swivet, tawers, tawsed, tawses, towels, towers, towies, tweaks, tweeds, tweets, twerps, twiers, twines, twyers, wadset, wasted, waster, wastes, waters, wechts, weskit, wester, wheats, whites, widest, wisent, wisest, wisted, withes, worset, wrests, wriest, writes, wryest.