Hold one green okra pod in your hand. Cut it open and there are seeds inside, sitting in a clear, slippery juice. Drop that pod into a hot pot and the juice spreads out, and everything in the pot turns thick and sticky. One way to hold the whole word is to keep that thick, sticky feeling in mind: the vegetable that produces it, the famous southern soup it makes, and even the wet ground that grabs a boot the same way.
From the word’s history
The word came into American English from Louisiana French gombo, possibly through Louisiana Creole, and before that from Kimbundu ingombo, plural of kingombo, meaning okra. So the vegetable sense is where the word starts, and the dish is named after the thing that thickens it.
這個字從路易斯安那法語 gombo 進入美式英文，可能經過當地克里奧語，再往前是 Kimbundu 語的 kingombo，意思就是「秋葵」。所以字的起點是那樣蔬菜；那鍋湯是用讓它變稠的東西來命名的。
Wiktionary, "gumbo"
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