| 单词 | stew |
| 释义 | Word Frequency stew 1(stjuː) noun 1. a. a dish of meat, fish, or other food, cooked by stewing b. (as modifier) stew pot 2. informal a difficult or worrying situation or a troubled state (esp in the phrase in a stew) 3. a heterogeneous mixture a stew of people of every race 4. (usually plural) archaic a brothel 5. obsolete a public room for hot steam baths verb 6. to cook or cause to cook by long slow simmering 7. (intransitive) informal to be troubled or agitated 8. (intransitive) informal to be oppressed with heat or crowding 9. to cause (tea) to become bitter or (of tea) to become bitter through infusing for too long 10. stew in one's own juice Word origin C14 stuen to take a very hot bath, from Old French estuver, from Vulgar Latin extūfāre (unattested), from ex-1 + (unattested) tūfus vapour, from Greek tuphosWord Frequency stew 2(stjuː) noun British 1. a fishpond or fishtank 2. an artificial oyster bed Word origin C14: from Old French estui, from estoier to shut up, confine, ultimately from Latin studium study |
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