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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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jumbo
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d???mb??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d???mbo?/
- Rhymes: -?mb??
- Hyphenation: jum?bo
Etymology 1
From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).
Adjective
jumbo (not comparable)
- Especially large or powerful.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
jumbo (plural jumbos)
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- Synonym: drilling jumbo
Translations
See also
- Jumbomania
Etymology 2
From (mumbo) jumbo.
Noun
jumbo (plural jumbos)
- (paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
Further reading
- drilling jumbo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Jumbo (elephant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- jumbo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jumbo/, [?jumbo?]
- Rhymes: -umbo
- Syllabification: jum?bo
Etymology 1
After the circus elephant of the same name, as elephants are considered slow. A similar expression is found in Swedish jumbo. For the origin of the name, see English jumbo.
Noun
jumbo (not comparable)
- (informal) last, last one, especially in a competition
Declension
Synonyms
- viimeinen
Compounds
- jumbofinaali
- jumbosija
Etymology 2
From English jumbo, from the same origin as above.
Noun
jumbo
- jumbo jet
- Short for porausjumbo (drilling jumbo).
- (as modifier) very large
Declension
Synonyms
- (jumbojet): jumbojetti
Compounds
- jumbojetti
- jumbokoko
- jumbokokoinen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").
Noun
jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboer, definite plural jumboene)
- a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)
Derived terms
- jumboplass
References
- “jumbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “jumbo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").
Noun
jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboar, definite plural jumboane)
- a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)
Derived terms
- jumboplass
References
- “jumbo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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