stewed
adj/stuːd/
Etymology From stew + -ed.
1
Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
2
Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
3
Slang Drunk.
- Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:
- Derived terms
- stewed as a prune, stewed to the ears, stewed to the eyeballs, stewed to the eyebrows, stewed to the gills, unstewed