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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)
- (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
- (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
- (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.
- 1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, ch. 11:
References
Kalanga
Noun
gumbo
- (anatomy) foot
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
gumbo
- nominative singular of gumba (“swarm”)
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etouffee
English
Noun
etouffee (countable and uncountable, plural etouffees)
- Alternative spelling of étouffée
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