stewish

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adjective

Like a stew or thick soup.

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Meanings

adjectivestewish (comparative more stewish, superlative most stewish)

comparative more stewish · superlative most stewish

  1. Like a stew or thick soup.
  2. obsoleteSuiting 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

Origin

From stew + -ish.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

westish
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APA

stewish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewish

MLA

“stewish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stewish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewish.

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