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noun
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Obsolete form of stew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive
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verb
Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”).
From Middle English stīven, alternative form of stūphen (“to steep (meat in a liquid)”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). Compare Scots stove (“to stew”) (whence Irish stobh), Old French estuver (“to put into hot water”), and Dutch stoven (“to stew, simmer”).
Related to Italian stivàre, Portuguese estivar.
