Gumbo Definition

gŭmbō
gumbos
noun
gumbos

Okra.

Webster's New World
A soup thickened with unripe okra pods, usually made with tomatoes, vegetables, and chicken, ham, or seafood.
Webster's New World
A fine, silty soil of the Western prairies, which becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.
Webster's New World

A French-based Creole spoken in Louisiana.

Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Gumbo

Noun

Singular:
gumbo
Plural:
gumbos

Origin of Gumbo

  • From Bantu ngombo, kingombo (“okra plant”), possibly via Gullah. Cognate to Portuguese quiabo, Caribbean Spanish guingambó, and cognates in other Romance languages.

    From Wiktionary

  • Louisiana French gombo of Bantu origin Tshiluba ki-ngumbo okra

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gumbo Sentence Examples

  • Springtime on the Bayou--Includes cruising in the heart of Cajun country in Louisiana and sampling popular local dishes such as gumbo, crawfish pie, and jambalaya.

  • In various parts of the west are small tracts of so-called gumbo " soil; they are due to the Pierre shale, are poorly drained and characteristically alkaline.

  • I followed this with seafood gumbo which I also enjoyed.

  • The gumbo with steamed mussels and vegetables is popular, as is the spicy tuna tartare.

  • They are in every form from the rare to the common-glass pot clay, ball clays, kaolins, flint fireclays, plastic fireclays, stone-ware clays, paving-brick shales, building-brick and gumbo clays.

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Words Starting With

GGUGUM

Words Ending With

OBOMBO

Unscrambles

gumbo

Words Starting With G and Ending With O

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With G5 Letter Words Ending With O