Noun: gumbo
| Singular | gumbo |
| Plural | gumbos |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 11, in The Foreigner:]
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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. [1914 April, “Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones”, in Popular Mechanics, page 567:]
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The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. [1950 July 3, “Labor: Trouble at Lowland”, in Time:]
Nouns inflected like gumbo
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, possibly via Louisiana Creole gombo, from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó. See: French Nouns '
gombo', Portuguese Nouns '
quingombó'.
Verbs referencing "gumbo"
Irish Nouns
gumbó.