stewed
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stewed (comparative more stewed, superlative most stewed)
- Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
- Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
- (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
[edit]Verb
[edit]stewed
- simple past and past participle of stew
References
[edit]- “stewed adj.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present