gumbo
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Vidu ankaŭ (ĉiuj lingvoj): gumbó |
angla[redakti]
Etymology[redakti]
From vira, vira, possibly via .[1][2] Cognate to Ŝablono:cog, Caribbean Ŝablono:cog, and cognates in other Romance languages.
Pronunciation[redakti]
Substantivo[redakti]
Angla substantivo English noun | |
Singularo | Pluralo |
gumbo | gumbos |
- luksemburga The okra plant or its pods.
- luksemburga A soup or stew made with okra.
- 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.
- 1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, ch. 11:
Synonyms[redakti]
- (okra plant): okra, ladies' fingers
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- ↑ Oxford American Dictionaries
- ↑ The Chambers Dictionary, 1994, ISBN 0-550-10255-8