stew vs fricassee

fricassee vs stew

stew and fricassee both are nouns.

stew and fricassee both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stew	Yes	No	Yes	No
fricassee	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, fricassee is a hyponym of stew; that is, fricassee is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stew:

stew: food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
fricassee: pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings

Other hyponyms of stew include pottage, bigos, Brunswick stew, burgoo, olla podrida, Spanish burgoo, Irish burgoo, mulligan, mulligan stew, chicken purloo, poilu, purloo, goulash, gulyas, Hungarian goulash, hotchpotch, hot pot, hotpot, Irish stew, oyster stew, lobster stew, lobscouse, lobscuse, scouse, fish stew, beef stew, ragout, ratatouille, pot-au-feu, slumgullion.

stew (noun)	fricassee (noun)
food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables	pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings
agitation resulting from active worry

stew (verb)	fricassee (verb)
cook slowly and for a long time in liquid	make a fricassee of by cooking
bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Difference between stew and fricassee

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