gumbo
See also: gumbó
English
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Gumbo (stew) with okra pods.
Etymology
From Bantu ngombo, kingombo (“okra plant”), possibly via Gullah.[1][2] Cognate to Portuguese quiabo, Caribbean Spanish guingambó, and cognates in other Romance languages.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
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
- Oxford American Dictionaries
- The Chambers Dictionary, 1994, →ISBN
Kalanga
Noun
gumbo
- (anatomy) foot