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gumbo

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)

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etouffee

English

Noun

etouffee (countable and uncountable, plural etouffees)

  1. Alternative spelling of étouffée

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