Spewy vs Stewy - What's the difference?
spewy | stewy |
Moist; marshy; emitting water.
* 1886 , Journal of horticulture and practical gardening: Volume 12
stew-like, similar to stew
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, passage=All food is fetched in dixeys (large boilers), and tea, stew, and bacon are all cooked in turn in these, so if the orderlies don't wash them clean at dinner time we have greasy, stewy tea. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=September 22, author=Mike Sula, title=How to Eat Ethnic, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The 24-hour Kababish (939 N. Orleans, 312-642-8622) has a few booths set before a steaming buffet of hearty north Indian and Pakistani dishes, notably a thick, stewy , slow-cooked haleem made from wheat, mutton, lentils, and spice; grilled charga chicken sprinkled with garam masala; and goat curry. }}
As adjectives the difference between spewy and stewy
is that spewy is moist; marshy; emitting water while stewy is stew-like, similar to stew.spewy
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(en adjective)- Between two ridges of raised ground and on the falling slope occur spewy springs issuing from the higher ground above, and soaking down the hollow, widening and gathering moisture till the water issues in a small rill at the bottom
stewy
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