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  • adjective stew-like, similar to stew

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Examples

  • Wine number six was bursting with plump and juicy red fruits that I found to be stewy.

    Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • If you're a stewy kind of a person, then try Margaret Costa's rich and retro pheasant with cider and apples, the recipe for which is in her classic Four Seasons cookbook.

    Why pheasant is the only game in town 2011

  • Serve these for breakfast, with a good crusty bread to sop up the flavorful oil, or with stewy chickpeas any time of the day.

    Jesse Kornbluth: With Millions Hungry, Luxury Grates; The Canal House Cooks Re-Defined Luxury for Me Jesse Kornbluth 2010

  • Today the American Dream is a stewy mush of insurables supported by a portfolio of retirement benefits we hope will insulate us from both time and those who are "less fortunate."

    Matt Idom: 'Idoms' of Interest: Greed 2010

  • I came home many times to find the burnt and reeky residue from his preferred dish, a stewy mung of canned fish, bamboo shoots, and creamed corn, clinging to the bottom of one of my precious pots.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • I came home many times to find the burnt and reeky residue from his preferred dish, a stewy mung of canned fish, bamboo shoots, and creamed corn, clinging to the bottom of one of my precious pots.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • Hell, I think Junie B. Jones is bad for kids (I think it's patronizing and stewy-pewy cutsie-wootsie besides) but I'm not going to stand in anyone's way of reading it.

    Yikes Roger Sutton 2008

  • Large women in head scarves and white coats were talking over the grind of machinery, while aluminum pans kept stewy things simmering on hot plates.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • So I layered the meaty/beany stewy stuff in a casserole dish with the fried tortillas and some cheese, and then I doused it liberally with the enchilada sauce and stuck it in the fridge.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Lisa B. 2009

  • So I layered the meaty/beany stewy stuff in a casserole dish with the fried tortillas and some cheese, and then I doused it liberally with the enchilada sauce and stuck it in the fridge.

    He smelled his first poem on a buttery day Lisa B. 2009

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