steamedadj.
/stiːmd/ 1. In the simple senses of the verb.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > steamed
steamed1802
pressure-cooked1922
dum1956
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > steamed
steamed1802
1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. II. 133 Steamed potatoes are always more wholesome and nutritious than such as are boiled in water.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 427 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The horses..receive four quarts of corn each per day, sprinkled on the steamed food.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 691/2 The waggons for receiving the steamed fabrics.
1884 N. Lake Menus made Easy viii. 149 Pouding soufflé—a very light steamed pudding.
1884 N. Lake Menus made Easy viii. 150 Pouding à la Snowdon—a steamed pudding of suet, breadcrumbs, brown sugar and marmalade.
1945 ABC of Cookery (Min. of Food) xvii. 61 Most modern steamed puddings are made by one or other of the cake-mixing methods already described.
1978 K. Webber Bk. Winter Cooking 93 Boiled or steamed puddings can be stodgy.
2. With up.
a. Excited or roused, esp. to anger; agitated, upset. Frequently in all steamed up. Rarely without up. colloquial.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]
irrec825
gramec893
wemodc897
wrothc950
bolghenc1000
gramelyc1000
hotOE
on fireOE
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inflameda1600
raiseda1600
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exasperated1611
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bristlinga1639
peltish1648
sultry1671
on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672
nangry1681
ugly1687
sorea1694
glimflashy1699
enraged1732
spunky1809
cholerous1822
kwaai1827
wrathy1828
angersome1834
outraged1836
irate1838
vex1843
raring1845
waxy1853
stiff1856
scotty1867
bristly1872
hot under the collar1879
black angry1894
spitfire1894
passionful1901
ignorant1913
hairy1914
snaky1919
steamed1923
uptight1934
broigus1937
lemony1941
ripped1941
pissed1943
crooked1945
teed off1955
ticked off1959
ripe1966
torqued1967
bummed1970
the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated
high-wrought1579
feverous1587
tremulous1611
feverish1637
overwound1640
gestient1644
overwrought1648
twittering1648
fevereda1657
tumultuous1667
wrought-up1688
flustered1743
trepidatinga1774
flurried1775
wrought1778
riled1825
tête montée1825
worked up1831
tumultuating1854
trepidant1891
tremorous1897
wroughted1905
goosy1906
hotted-up1923
steamed1923
spooky1926
antsy-pantsy1944
antsy1950
agitato1964
amped1967
wired1970
1923 H. C. Witwer in Cosmopolitan Sept. 72/2 I was a bit steamed up about her making my popular sex ridiculous by going boy-crazy at fifty.
1935 J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 8 Steamed, envious, angry.
1936 M. H. Bradley Five-minute Girl v. 79 If she was all steamed up like this over embroidery silks, he thought, what would she be when he told his news?
1943 P. Cheyney You can always Duck vi. 101 I reckon he's a bit steamed up over my allure.
1953 K. Amis Lucky Jim xiv. 148 People get themselves all steamed up about whether they're in love or not.
1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vii. 330 People live naked in this country [sc. the USA]. If you get steamed up you let everyone know.
1979 G. F. Newman List ii. 22 They sounded pretty steamed with him.
1980 D. Bogarde Gentle Occup. ii. 44 The General insists it is sent to all the Brigades. He's getting very steamed up about the bloody little thing.
b. Drunk, intoxicated. Rarely without up. slang.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
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in drink1598
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pot-shotten1604
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pot-sick1611
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hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
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rocky1737
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soft1737
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stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
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ripe1823
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tight1830
rummy1834
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pickled1842
swizzled1843
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ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 10/2 Steamed up, drunk.
1950 Landfall June 126 Little Spike is six foot two and has a reputation for being a hard case when he is steamed-up.
1971 J. Terrell Bunkhouse Papers xii. 156 A cowman sat next to the houseman, and he was steamed with liquor so that he slumped a little to one side.
3. With up. Of a glass surface, etc.: covered or bedewed with condensed vapour.
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1972 G. Lyall Blame the Dead xv. 106 I went along to the buffet car..and stared at the steamed-up window.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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