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Stew vs Stovies - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between stew and stovies

is that stew is a cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron while stovies is a traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.

As a verb stew

is to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

As a proper noun Stew

is a diminutive of the male given name Stewart.

stew

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) estuve (modern French .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
  • *:
  • *:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel
  • (label) A brothel.
  • *1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)
  • *:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .
  • *1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh
  • *:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .
  • *1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:
  • *:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.
  • (label) A prostitute.
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  • *1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
  • *:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .
  • (label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
  • An artificial bed of oysters.
  • (label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
  • :
    • Synonyms
    * (food) casserole, (British) hotpot
    Coordinate terms
    * casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragout
    Derived terms
    * in a stew * stewpot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
    • I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
    The meat is stewing nicely.
  • To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
  • (figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  • (figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
    • Synonyms
    * (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worry

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
  • * 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:
    • And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.
  • * 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:
    • "We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
    "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
  • * 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:
    • Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.

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    stovies

    English

    (wikipedia stovies)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
  • * 1975 , Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood , page 203,
    • At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies', which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the ' stovies .
  • * 2008 , Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please , page 44,
    • During the winter months my granny always made me stovies' on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. ' Stovies , as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.
  • * 2012 , Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling , AuthorHouse UK, page 8,
    • They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies'’ might be. Meg soon explained that ' stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.

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