gumboとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• gombo

語源

Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, ultimately from Kimbundu (k)ingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.^[1][2]

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌm.boʊ/
• 韻: -ʌmbəʊ

名詞

gumbo (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gumbos)

1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
2. (countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
   • 1909, Ralph Connor, 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.

派生語

• gumbo limbo
• gumbo z'herbes

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