gumbo

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

Gumbo in a sentence

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.

The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

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