different between gumbo vs creole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, ultimately from Kimbundu (k)ingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)

1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
2. (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
   • 1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, ch. 11:

     The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.

   • 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics, p. 567:

     There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.

   • 1950 July 3, "Labor: Trouble at Lowland," Time:

     The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

References

Kalanga

Noun

gumbo

1.  (anatomy) foot

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gumbo

1. nominative singular of gumba (“swarm”)

English

Etymology

See Creole. Attested in English to refer to language from the 18th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?i.??l/
• (US) enPR: kr???l, IPA^(key): /?k?io?l/

Noun

creole (plural creoles)

1. (linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• Haitian Creole – English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary – the Rosetta Edition.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr??ole/
• Rhymes: -??ole

Adjective

creole f

1. feminine plural of creolo

Anagrams

• celerò
• ercole, Ercole