stew n.2
1. (US) a drunkard; also attrib.
![]() | Works (1862) V 418: Not to name the Maynooth Catholics, and other Irish stews. | ‘University Feud’|
![]() | Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 58: ‘Who’s your friend?’ says the mark [...] ‘Oh, he’s some stew fighter around here,’ says the Kid. | |
![]() | A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 9: Get out of here you big stew. | |
![]() | Gullible’s Travels 191: ‘No,’ I says, ‘that’s the steward.’ ‘And what does he do?’ she ast me. ‘He hangs round the bar,’ I says, ‘and looks after the stews.’. | ‘The Water Cure’ in|
![]() | Hand-made Fables 266: Those amateur Stews who were still on Probation usually addressed him as ‘Professor’. | |
![]() | Put on the Spot 71: She was a terrible stew an’ half the time she was in the hoosegow. | |
![]() | Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. | |
![]() | Star (Marion, OH) 31 July 6/8: The beauty of the latter [phrase] must be clear to anyone who has ever been the victim of a stew’s fond embrace. | in|
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | World’s Toughest Prison 820: stew – A drunkard. |
2. a drunken carouse.
![]() | Sporting Times 24 Mar. 1/1: Begad and hooroo! So the consideration of water had to be adjourned to let Irishmen talk. Why didn’t you put a little whisky in the water, Stuart? Is there no Irish Stew-art about you? | |
![]() | Hobo’s Hornbook 193: And while I sat there drinking, getting on a mighty stew. | ‘Toledo Slim’ in|
![]() | Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 131: I was sittin’ at the table, gettin’ on a mighty stew, / a dead swell dame come sit beside me too. |