gumbo
pronunciation
How to pronounce gumbo in British English:
UK [ˈgʌmbəʊ]
How to pronounce gumbo in American English:
US [ˈgʌmboʊ]
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- Noun:
- any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
- tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
- long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
- a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
Word Origin
- gumbo (n.)
- soup thickened with okra, 1805, from Louisiana French, probably ultimately from Central Bantu dialect (compare Mbundu ngombo "okra"). Also used for "the creole patois of Louisiana" (1838).
Example
- 1. Why not a site dedicated to gumbo pudding pops ?
- 2. Driving along st. charles avenue , through toxic puddles that once belonged to the mississippi river or lake pontchartrain , you saw a painted sign on a door reading , " still here . Cooking a pot of dog gumbo . "
- 3. My personal favorite is the shrimp gumbo .
- 4. The best gumbo I 've ever tasted .
- 5. This is gumbo where everyone gets to put in an ingredient .