Gumbo

Quick meaning: Gumbo is a noun meaning (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.

Meaning

(countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
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.

Example Sentences

The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• gumbos

Synonyms for gumbo

Depending on context, synonyms include okra.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include okra, soup, conch, limbo, gombo, gumboil.

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