stewish

English

Etymology

From stew +‎ -ish.

Adjective

stewish (comparative more stewish, superlative most stewish)

1. Like a stew or thick soup.
2. (obsolete) Suiting a stew, or brothel.
   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     What, he, that earst to gain the ryming goale,
     The worne Recitall-post of Capitolle,
     Rymed in rules of stewish ribaldry,
     Teaching experimentall baudery?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stewish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• wishest