Word of the Day
March 22, 2026
GUMBO
- French patois spoken by blacks and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies
- of, pertaining to, or like gumbo
- okra
- refers to a soup thickened with okra pods or fil and containing meat or seafoods and usually vegetables.
- soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet
- stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes fil├® as a thickener
- the okra plant [n GUMBOS]
- the okra plant, also GOMBO, GOMBRO [n -S]