stewish

adj — 2 senses

stewish

adj

Etymology From stew + -ish.

1

Like a stew or thick soup.

2

Obsolete Suiting a stew (brothel), i.e. lewd or lascivious

  • What, he, that earst to gain the ryming goale, The worne Recitall-post of Capitolle, Rymed in rules of stewish ribaldry, Teaching experimentall baudery?1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

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