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steamed, ppl. a.|stiːmd|
[f. steam v.]
1. In the simple senses of the vb.
1802Willich Dom. Encycl. II. 133 Steamed potatoes are always more wholesome and nutritious than such as are boiled in water. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 427 The horses..receive four quarts of corn each per day, sprinkled on the steamed food. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 691/2 The waggons for receiving the steamed fabrics. 1884N. Lake Menus made Easy viii. 149 Pouding soufflé—a very light steamed pudding. Ibid. viii. 150 Pouding à la Snowdon—a steamed pudding of suet, breadcrumbs, brown sugar and marmalade. 1945ABC of Cookery (Ministry of Food) xvii. 61 Most modern steamed puddings are made by one or other of the cake-mixing methods already described. 1978K. Webber Bk. Winter Cooking 93 Boiled or steamed puddings can be stodgy.
2. With up.
a. Excited or roused, esp. to anger; agitated, upset. Freq. in phr. all steamed up. Rarely without up. colloq.
1923H. C. Witwer in Cosmopolitan Sept. 72/2, I was a bit steamed up about her making my popular sex ridiculous by going boy-crazy at fifty. 1935J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 8 Steamed, envious, angry. 1936M. H. Bradley Five-Minute Girl v. 79 If she was all steamed up like this over embroidery silks, he thought, what would she be when he told his news? 1943P. Cheyney You can always Duck vi. 101, I reckon he's a bit steamed up over my allure. 1953K. Amis Lucky Jim xiv. 148 People get themselves all steamed up about whether they're in love or not. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vii. 330 People live naked in this country [sc. the USA]. If you get steamed up you let everyone know. 1979G. F. Newman List ii. 22 They sounded pretty steamed with him. 1980D. Bogarde Gentle Occupation ii. 44 The General insists it is sent to all the Brigades. He's getting very steamed up about the bloody little thing.
b. Drunk, intoxicated. Rarely without up. slang.
1929M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 10/2 Steamed up, drunk. 1950Landfall June 126 Little Spike is six foot two and has a reputation for being a hard case when he is steamed-up. 1971J. Terrell Bunkhouse Papers xii. 156 A cowman sat next to the houseman, and he was steamed with liquor so that he slumped a little to one side.
3. With up. Of a glass surface, etc.: covered or bedewed with condensed vapour.
1972G. Lyall Blame the Dead xv. 106, I went along to the buffet car..and stared at the steamed-up window. |