Gumbo vs Gumbe - What's the difference?
gumbo | gumbe |
(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.
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* 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics ,
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A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
As nouns the difference between gumbo and gumbe
is that gumbo is (countable) the okra plant or its pods while gumbe is a style of music from guinea-bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.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.