Bayou
a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water.
Contemporary Examples
Most folks call them crayfish, but in the bayou, they are crawfish.
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But Hillstomp is the real deal, as legit as anything you will find nowadays down on the bayou.
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DeWeese has wanted BP to pay a cash bond to ensure the company remediates the site and the bayou once it ceases operations.
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All the moves, that is, except managing his state properly—at least according to bayou voters.
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Instead, bayou, Israel’s hedge-fund group, continued to flounder and the deception only grew.
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Historical Examples
Remaining with his sons a few days, he again took the boat for bayou Sara, where he landed in the middle of the night.
Audubon and his Journals, Volume I (of 2) Maria R. Audubon
He was asleep; had gone to sleep calling her “Maman” and babbling of wild-fowl on the bayou.
The Long Roll Mary Johnston
The levee on the opposite side of the bayou might shelter sharpshooters, but not a column.
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The house had floated out of a bayou, I found, which was the reason we did not see it sooner.
Up the River Oliver Optic
Little or no current is met with, unless when the canoe passes over the bed of a bayou.
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2 Maria R. Audubon
noun
(in the southern US) a sluggish marshy tributary of a lake or river
n.
1766, via Louisiana French, from Choctaw bayuk “small stream.”
bayou
(bī’)
A sluggish, marshy stream connected with a river, lake, or gulf. Bayous are common in the southern United States.
bayou [(beye-ooh, beye-oh)]
Term used mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi to describe a swampy, slowly moving or stationary body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf.
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