stewed

English

Etymology

From stew + -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stuːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Adjective

stewed (comparative more stewed, superlative most stewed)

1. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
2. Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
3. (slang) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

     Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.

Derived terms

• stewed as a prune
• stewed to the ears
• stewed to the eyeballs
• stewed to the eyebrows
• stewed to the gills
• unstewed

Verb

stewed

1. simple past and past participle of stew

References

• “stewed adj.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

Anagrams

• Tweeds, dewets, dweets, tweeds, wested