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gumbo

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Gum=bo

CIDE DICTIONARY

gumbon. [Written also gombo.].
  •  A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The okra plant or its pods.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gumbo, n. (pl. -os) US 1 okra.
2 a soup thickened with okra pods.
3 (Gumbo) a patois of Blacks and Creoles spoken esp. in Louisiana.

Etymology
of Afr. orig.

THESAURUS

gumbo

adhesive, adobe, albumen, amylaceous, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, butter, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clabbered, clam chowder, clammy, clay, clayey, clayish, clear soup, clotted, coagulated, consomme, cornstarch, cream, curd, curdled, dough, doughy, earthy, egg drop soup, egg white, fish soup, gaum, gaumy, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, gelatinous, glair, glairy, glop, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, goo, gooey, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, grumous, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, inspissated, jam, jell, jelled, jellied, jelly, jellylike, julienne, loamy, loblolly, marly, matzo ball soup, minestrone, mire, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucilaginous, muck, mucus, mud, mulligatawny, ooze, oxtail soup, pap, paste, pasty, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, ropy, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slabby, slime, slimy, slip, slithery, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, soily, soup, squash, starch, starchy, sticky, sticky mess, stock, stodgy, stringy, swill, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick soup, thickened, thin soup, tomato soup, tough, treacle, tremelloid, tremellose, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, viscid, viscose, viscous, won ton soup

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