stew
noun
[ stjuː ]
• a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
• "lamb stew"
• a state of great anxiety or agitation.
• "she's in a right old stew"
Similar:
agitated,
anxious,
in a state of nerves,
nervous,
in a state of agitation,
in a panic,
worked up,
keyed up,
overwrought,
wrought up,
flustered,
flurried,
in a pother,
in a flap,
in a state,
all of a dither,
in a sweat,
in a tizz/tizzy,
in a tiz-woz,
all of a lather,
het up,
in a twitter,
strung up,
windy,
having kittens,
all of a doodah,
in a twit,
toey,
overstrung,
• a heated public room used for steam baths.
stew
verb
• (with reference to meat, fruit, or other food) cook or be cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
• "beef stewed in wine"
• remain in a heated or stifling atmosphere.
• "sweaty clothes left to stew in a plastic bag"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. stew1 (sense 1 of the noun) (mid 18th century) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).
stew
noun
• a pond or large tank for keeping fish for eating.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French estui, from estoier ‘confine’.
stew
noun
• a flight attendant.
Origin:
1970s: abbreviation of stewardess.
