gumbo

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English

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Gumbo (stew) with okra pods.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (okra); compare Portuguese quingombó.[1][2]

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gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)

  1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
  2. (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.
  3. (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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References

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  1. ^ gumbo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gumbo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Kalanga

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gumbo

  1. (anatomy) foot

Pali

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gumbo

  1. nominative singular of gumba (swarm)