gumbo

[ guhm-boh ]
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noun,plural gum·bos.
  1. a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.

  1. soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.

adjective
  1. of, relating to, or like gumbo.

Origin of gumbo

1
1795–1805, Americanism;<Louisiana French gombo, gumbo< a Bantu language; compare Umbundu ochinggombo, Luba chinggombo okra

Other definitions for Gumbo (2 of 2)

Gumbo
[ guhm-boh ]

noun(sometimes lowercase)
  1. a French patois spoken by Black and Creole people in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

Origin of Gumbo

2
First recorded in 1835–40; probably from the same source as gumbo

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British Dictionary definitions for gumbo (1 of 2)

gumbo

gombo

/ (ˈɡʌmbəʊ) /


nounplural -bos US and Canadian
  1. the mucilaginous pods of okra

  2. another name for okra

  1. a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

  2. a fine soil in the W prairies that becomes muddy when wet

Origin of gumbo

1
C19: from Louisiana French gombo, of Bantu origin

British Dictionary definitions for Gumbo (2 of 2)

Gumbo

/ (ˈɡʌmbəʊ) /


noun
  1. (sometimes not capital) a French patois spoken by Creoles in Louisiana and the Caribbean

Origin of Gumbo

2
see gumbo

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