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Gumbo vs Creole - What's the difference?

gumbo | creole |

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

  • (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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    creole

    English

    (Creole language)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
  • Derived terms

    * creolisation, creolization * creolise, creolize * creoloid * post-creole continuum