Gumbo vs Creole - What's the difference?
gumbo | creole |
(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:
* 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics ,
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(linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
As nouns the difference between gumbo and creole
is that gumbo is the okra plant or its pods while creole is a lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.As an adjective Creole is
pertaining to or characteristic of someone who is a Creole.As a proper noun Creole is
any specific creole language, especially that of Haiti.gumbo
English
(wikipedia gumbo)Noun
- 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 .
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.
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' fingersReferences
creole
English
(Creole language)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* creolisation, creolization * creolise, creolize * creoloid * post-creole continuumExternal links
*Haitian Creole – English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster’s Dictionary– the Rosetta Edition. ----