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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "gumbo" in a sentence

    gumbo example sentences

    gumbo


    1. “I’ll have the seafood gumbo and a Coke


    2. It stank even for the City, but there was a kettle and some gumbo that looked like it had been simmering in a battered tin pot for the last decade


    3. The two new business partners sat down and enjoyed a cup of crushed, roasted hookbeetle coffee (a delicacy of the city) and a bowl of gumbo each


    4. He comes in here every night and orders plate after plate of spicy gumbo


    5. It is just as well that my longing for her is nothing more, otherwise my emotions would tear me apart and leave me broken and alone, shovelling gumbo down my throat like the colonel over there


    6. Stan stoked up the fire and brought the never-ending infinity fish gumbo to the boil


    7. “I really haven't got a plan,” said Ambrosius as he finished his gumbo


    8. Gumbo file is essential in gumbo dishes and it is basically nothing more than ground sassafras 135


    9. You can also make a few additions to the recipe such as tomatoes, peppers, smoked sausage and the appropriate seasoning and have a Cajun soup or turkey gumbo


    10. You’ll find recipes for curry seasoning and Cajun seasoning in this book, but you’ll have to buy the gumbo file at the store

    11. change of clothes from who knew where, and settled with an enormous bowl of gumbo and a


    12. He had wandered the steaming city, marveling at the sight of huge ships making their way up the Mississippi above street level, eating huge platters full of cheap shrimp and crab, digging into steaming bowls of gumbo and jambalaya, soaking up the rhythms and the howl of the jazz and the blues that coursed through the streets of the French Quarter on warm, silky nights scented with jasmine and bourbon


    13. So when Abraham suggested we stop in at a little gray shanty of a saloon with a crooked sign on the door, GUMBO JOE’S, I was a happy man


    14. THE CHINLESS OLD MAN RETURNED, bearing in his good hand a tray with three steaming bowls of dark gumbo


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    Synonyms for "gumbo"

    gumbo okra abelmoschus esculentus hibiscus esculentus lady's-finger okra plant gumbo soil

    "gumbo" definitions

    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


    long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews


    a soup or stew thickened with okra pods