Definition of Stew

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Definition of Stew

Stew

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

An artificial bed of oysters.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

A brothel; -- usually in the plural.

A prostitute.

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

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Stew Quotations

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.
Casey Affleck

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
Philip Glass

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
David Grayson

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
Marian Burros

Stew Translations

stew in Dutch is goulash
stew in Portuguese is guisado
stew in Spanish is guiso, estofado
stew in Swedish is stuva, stuvas, stuvning

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