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See also: gumbó
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌm.boʊ/
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Noun
[edit]gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)
- (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
- (countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
- (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
- 1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 11, in The Foreigner:
- 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”, in Popular Mechanics, page 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”, in Time:
- The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “gumbo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gumbo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Kalanga
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Pali
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Noun
[edit]gumbo
- nominative singular of gumba (“swarm”)
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