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US
/ˈɡəmboʊ/
]
[ UK /ɡˈʌmbəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʌmbəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
- long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
- any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
- tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
How To Use gumbo In A Sentence
- The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
- Because of risk of blood poisoning, consult your doctor if there is no improvement in 12 hours if a gumboil bursts, or if abscess seems to be enlarging rapidly; antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection spreading.
- The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
- On the other hand, when armed with a large umbrella or a well-fitting raincoat and perhaps a pair of gumboots, it is possible to enjoy the monsoon rains, and take time out to splash through muddy puddles and wade through waterlogged roads.
- We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
- It wasn't until the early 19th century that Creoles in New Orleans began using tomatoes in gumbos and jambalayas.
- Anyway, it's easier to wear gumboots when you don't have to tuck your trousers in.
- It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
- From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography.
- The impressive cast of 18 dancers and drummers combine pantsula and tap with Tswana and gumboot dancing and the rhythmic beat of drums.