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stewish

stewish adjective: like a stew or thick soup.

Adjective

stewish (comparative more stewish, superlative most stewish)

  1. Like a stew or thick soup.
  2. (obsolete) Suiting a stew (brothel), i.e. lewd or lascivious
    • What, he, that earst to gain the ryming goale,
      The worne Recitall-post of Capitolle,
      Rymed in rules of stewish ribaldry,
      Teaching experimentall baudery?1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Forms of stewish

comparativemore stewish
superlativemost stewish

Origin of stewish

From stew + -ish.

Questions about stewish

What does stewish mean?
Stewish means like a stew or thick soup.
What part of speech is stewish?
Stewish is an adjective.

Words near stewish in the dictionary

  1. stewing in one's own juice
  2. stewing in one's own juices
  3. stewing up
  4. stewingly
  5. stewings
  6. stewish
  7. Stewkey Blue
  8. Stewkey Blues
  9. Stewkley
  10. stewlike
  11. stewp

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