stew

n.

1. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.

2. Informal (for a man) an ex-boyfriend/ex-husband of a present (or prospective) female lover, with whose thorny memory and existence he has to deal daily.

3. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys.

4. Archaic A brothel. Often used in the plural.

(1) As burning AEtna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. --Spenser

(2) Man, I can't get over that fucking stew!

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