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Bisque vs Gumbo - What's the difference?

bisque | gumbo |

As nouns the difference between bisque and gumbo

is that bisque is a thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables while gumbo is the okra plant or its pods.

As an adjective bisque

is of a pale pinkish brown colour.

bisque

English

(wikipedia bisque)

Noun

  • A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
  • (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
  • # A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
  • # A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
  • A pale pinkish brown colour.
  • A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • of a pale pinkish brown colour

    • Related terms

    * biscuit

    See also

    *

    gumbo

    English

    (wikipedia gumbo)

    Noun

  • (countable) The okra plant or its pods.
  • (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
  • (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
  • * 1909 , , The Foreigner , ch. 11:
    • The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo .
  • * 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics , p. 567:
    • There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo'" roads of the south—' gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.
  • * 1950 July 3, " Labor: Trouble at Lowland," Time :
    • The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

    Synonyms

    * (okra plant) okra, ladies' fingers

    References

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