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 (brothel), i.e. lewd or lascivious
   • 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?

References

• “stewish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• wishest