Definitions for Gumbo

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Gumbo gum·bo

Spelling: [guhm-boh]

IPA: /ˈgʌm boʊ/

Gumbo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Gumbo (bgmou).

Definitions for Gumbo

noun

1. a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
2. okra.
3. soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.
4. a French patois spoken by blacks and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or like gumbo.

Origin of Gumbo

1795-1805, Americanism; Louisiana French gombo, gumbo ochinggombo, Luba chinggombo okra

Examples for Gumbo

When cattle get into gumbo, the farmers send for the stump-dynamite and try blasting.

In the northern counties it is found in "gumbo" soils in swamps.

So people stayed home and cooked big pots of red beans and gumbo.

They will then be good (with the addition of tomata paste) to boil in soup or gumbo.

I prefer hilltop, north slope, soil as deep as possible, and a gumbo subsoil.

It was all there: the military, the Constitution, the Bible—the whole Republican gumbo.

Lena Richard was a black caterer and owner of the gumbo House who published New Orleans Cookbook in 1940.

The cafeteria style stop is basically a comfort food joint—think baby back ribs, shrimp and grits, and gumbo—done well.

Spoon the rice into the center of the gumbo, and sprinkle each serving with green onions and parsley.

And Thackeray's picture of gumbo carrying in the soup tureen!