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sonofabitch stew en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, Western, uncountable, usually) A cowboy dish of the Old West: a stew made with beef and offal.
    • He can cull choice young animals for the pot and create triumphs of cruel gastronomy, like the baby beef of the gauchos or the Wyoming cattleman's sonofabitch stew based on the organ meats and brains of an unweaned calf. 2002, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, →ISBN:
    • Neither you nor I might like a Son-of-a-Bitch stew made from the organ meats of a milk-fed calf, but the cowboys liked it. 1981 October 21, Linda West Eckhardt, “Texas Eating: Ethnic variety with a frontier spirit”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
    • “Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.” 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN:

Forms

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son-of-a-gun stew alternative lexicographic
sonofabitch stews Number=Plur lexicographic
son of a bitch stew alternative lexicographic
SOB stew alternative lexicographic
son-of-a-bitch stew alternative lexicographic