| 单词 | stew |
| 释义 | stew (once / 719 pages) vn To stew is to slowly cook food, which results in a soup-like food called a stew. To stew also means to brood angrily. If you cook something slowly, like beef or vegetables, you stew it. The result of stewing is also called stew, which is usually chunky, like a thick soup. People can stew in another way when it comes to emotions. If your sister sits and worries about something, she stews. The root of stew is the Old French estuver, "bathe or stew." Back in the fourteenth century, stew was also a slang word meaning "brothel or bath house." WORD FAMILYstew: stewed, stewing, stews+/stewing: stewings USAGE EXAMPLESThey are read by a prison censor, so Mr. Akay writes as blandly as the prison stew. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) No stewing by the Golden State Warriors upon learning the NBA acknowledged two missed calls late in the team’s one-point Christmas Day loss at Cleveland. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Climate science is rooted in physics and chemistry—weather is energy, and the atmosphere is a stew of molecular interactions. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1v cook slowly and for a long time in liquid Stew the vegetables in wine Hypo|Hyper jug stew in an earthenware jug cook transform and make suitable for consumption by heating 2v be in a huff; be silent or sullen Syn|Hyper brood, grizzle brood, pout, sulk be in a huff and display one's displeasure 3v bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings Syn|Hyper grudge resent feel bitter or indignant about 4n food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables Hypo|Hyper pottage a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat bigosa Polish stew of cabbage and meat Brunswick stewspicy southern specialty: chicken (or small game) with corn and tomatoes and lima beans and okra and onions and potatoes burgoothick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States Spanish burgoo, olla podridaSpanish version of burgoo Irish burgoo, mulligan, mulligan stewIrish version of burgoo chicken purloo, poilu, purloothick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. Hungarian goulash, goulash, gulyasa rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika hotchpotcha stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables hot pot, hotpota stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot Irish stewmeat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions oyster stewoysters in cream lobster stewdiced lobster meat in milk or cream lobscouse, lobscuse, scousea stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors fish stewa stew made with fish fricasseepieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings beef stewa stew made with beef ragoutwell-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables ratatouillea vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings pot-au-feutraditional French stew of vegetables and beef slumgulliona thin stew of meat and vegetables beef goulashmeat is browned before stewing pork-and-veal goulashmade with sauerkraut and caraway seeds and served with sour cream porkholtmade of lamb or pork bouillabaissehighly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs matelotehighly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock chicken stewa stew made with chicken turkey stewa stew made with turkey salmiragout of game in a rich sauce dish a particular item of prepared food 5n agitation resulting from active worry don't get in a stew Syn|Hyper fret, lather, sweat, swither agitation a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance |
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