Etymology

gumbotil

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Today it means: A heavy dark clay resulting from Pleistocene glaciation. Full definition →

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The story

Introduced by George Frederick Kay, from gumbo (“type of soil”) and till (“glacial drift”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.