Definitions for gumbos

gumbos gum·bo

Spelling: [guhm-boh]
IPA: /ˈgʌm boʊ/

Gumbos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in gumbos (bgmosu).

Definitions for gumbos

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 gumbos

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

Examples for gumbos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for gumbos
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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