Synonyms for gumbo
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : guhm-boh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgʌm boʊ |
Top 10 synonyms for gumbo Other synonyms for the word gumbo
Définition of gumbo
Origin :- 1805, from Louisiana French, probably ultimately from Central Bantu dialect (cf. Mbundu ngombo "okra").
- As in broth : noun soup, usually clear
- And Thackeray's picture of Gumbo carrying in the soup tureen!
- Extract from : « Confessions of a Book-Lover » by Maurice Francis Egan
- When cattle get into gumbo, the farmers send for the stump-dynamite and try blasting.
- Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis
- They will then be good (with the addition of tomata paste) to boil in soup or gumbo.
- Extract from : « Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book » by Eliza Leslie
- In the northern counties it is found in "gumbo" soils in swamps.
- Extract from : « Trees of Indiana » by Charles Clemon Deam
- I prefer hilltop, north slope, soil as deep as possible, and a gumbo subsoil.
- Extract from : « The Apple » by Various
- I'd be afraid to trust the ivy with my weight plus the gumbo I intend to eat.
- Extract from : « A House Party with the Tucker Twins » by Nell Speed
- What on earth are you doing with those long 273 gumbo shooters, Charlie?
- Extract from : « The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine » by Katherine Stokes
- I have upland, with a poor soil and a gumbo subsoil, with a north and east aspect.
- Extract from : « The Apple » by Various
- In his ordinary temper the most humane of men, he simply raged at Gumbo.
- Extract from : « In the Wrong Paradise » by Andrew Lang
- The scroll was the first edition, the real original, and Gumbo had destroyed it.
- Extract from : « In the Wrong Paradise » by Andrew Lang
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