fish stew
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1.1
- noun
- /fɪʃ stu/
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guiso de pescado
- Still, the smells of cooking tempted me, and when one of the men offered me a bowl of fish stew, a horn of ale, and a hunk of bread, I ate.
- make a fish stew
- smell of fish stew
Do you think they make like fish Stew out of this?
- Do you think they make like fish Stew out of this?
Examples
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Just three drops of it went into the spicy fish stew that she made once or twice a year.
Fiction book (1997) -
I make good fish stew.
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I want fish stew today!
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I know wonderful place just up coast from here... ...where they make fish stew.
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So I can get back in time to put the finishing touches to my fish stew.
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It's a fish stew with all sorts of goodies.
Fiction book (2001) -
Soon the women had fires going and were baking bread while cooking porridge and fish stew in large iron pots.
Fiction book (2002) -
At dinner, as we lined up in the mess tent to serve ourselves from an iron pot of fish stew, we were sullen, like passengers on an overseas flight wedged into tourist class, with hours yet to go.
Fiction book (2002) -
Some of the fishermen, he discovered, had friendly daughters who were eager to listen to his slightly exaggerated Athenian adventures, and the fish stew Nestor served in his taverna was tastier than anything he had ever had in the capital.
Fiction book (2002) -
On a chilly evening, we enjoyed a comforting bowl of fish stew filled with fresh vegetables.
Synonyms
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1.0
A dish of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid
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9.9
A rich seafood soup from southern France with tomatoes, garlic, and saffron
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2.7
A thick soup made with fish, potatoes, and milk or cream
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'stew' denotes a savory dish cooked slowly and 'fish' specifies the main ingredient, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a dish of fish cooked as a stew. This noun–noun/modifier pattern is common across languages and follows standard English compounding, making the phrase immediately understandable.
Etymology
Fish stew may come from the simple meals of people by the sea who put fresh fish into one pot with vegetables and let the stew cook slowly over the fire. So today fish stew means 'a dish of fish cooked slowly in liquid, often with vegetables and seasonings'.