Meanings
stewpot1
plural stewpots
- A pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy.
What my parents served me from that very same stewpot was chicken.
2009 February 4, Melissa Clark, “Braised Rabbit, Easier on the Fat”, in New York Times - artA jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence.
It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.
2007 February 6, Michiko Kakutani, “Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left”, in New York Times
Stewpot2
- UKslangA nickname for somebody called Stewart or Stuart (as a given name or a surname).
Fuck, that is brilliant! That is inspired! What sauce! Get in! It's the economy, Stewpot!
2009 December 12, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, Will Smith, The Thick of It, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), BBC Four- UKslangEnglish disc jockey Ed Stewart.
Origin
Stewpot · proper noun
Blend of Stewart and Stuart + stewpot; compare -pot.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan olla
- ollapot used for making stew
Chinese Mandarin 燉鍋 /炖锅, 混亂 /混乱
- 燉鍋 /炖锅 (dùnguō)pot used for making stew
- 混亂 /混乱 (hùnluàn)jumble
Finnish pata, sekoitus
- patapot used for making stew
- sekoitusjumble
- sekamelskajumble
French fait-tout
- fait-toutpot used for making stew
German Kochtopf, Hafen
- Kochtopfpot used for making stew
- Hafenpot used for making stew
Polish gar, rondel
- garpot used for making stew
- rondeljumble
Spanish olla, cazuela
- ollapot used for making stew
- cazuelapot used for making stew
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stewpot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stewpot
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