gumbo

Vidu ankaŭ (ĉiuj lingvoj): gumbó

angla

Gumbo (stew) with okra pods.

Etymology

From vira, vira, possibly via . Cognate to Ŝablono:cog, Caribbean Ŝablono:cog, and cognates in other Romance languages.

Pronunciation

• Rimoj:

 Substantivo

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
gumbo	gumbos

1. luksemburga The okra plant or its pods.
2. luksemburga A soup or stew made with okra.
3. luksemburga 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.

Synonyms

• (okra plant): okra, ladies' fingers

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Kalanga

 Substantivo

1.  foot