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stew
noun- an awkward position; an agitated condition UK, 1806
- “The whole country,” he says, “is in a stew about whether a preferential quota should be admittedly set for blacks and Hispanics over whites with the same scholarly results[.]” — Alastair Cooke, Letter from America, 23 March 1999
- a state of alcohol intoxication US
- I was sittin’ at the table, gettin’ on a might stew / a dead swell dame come sit beside me too. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 131, 1965
- a drunkard US
- Swedes are either teetotalers or wonderful stews. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 81, 1950
- nitroglycerin used to blow open a safe US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 225, 1949
- an airline flight attendant US
A shortened form of “stewardess”. - Terry, a new stewardess who isn’t swinging–yet–has a blow up with her mother and leaves home to stay with Gussy, another “stew.” — Adam Film Quarterly, p. 14, September 1969
- You don’t have to go out hunting for a stew. They stay in the same hotels we do. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 204, 1970
- And when I was a stew, “Oh, she’s a stewardess,” and that’s that. — John Warren Wells, Tricks of the Trade, p. 75, 1970
- I used to sign on with a little blonde stew, Miss Jones. — Edward Lin, Big Julie of Vegas, p. 236, 1974
- Here we go to hell, escorted by the tight-hipped, Mabellined, hard-smiling, round-eyed stews from Never-Never Land. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 10, 1976
- Being a stew and all . . . well, you can pick up a lot of art objects in your travels. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 5, 1978
- I wake up on a plane and have no idea in the world where we’re going. I’m thinking, How do I ask the stew without sounding like an idiot? — Elmore Leonard, Pronto, p. 315, 1993
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