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Gumbo vs Chowder - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gumbo and chowder

is that gumbo is the okra plant or its pods while chowder is a thick, creamy soup or stew.

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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    chowder

    English

    (wikipedia chowder)

    Noun

  • A thick, creamy soup or stew.
  • A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
  • A seller of fish.
    • (Halliwell)

    Derived terms

    * chowder beer * clam chowder

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