bayou
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/
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/ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/ · /ˈbaɪ.oʊ/
Definition of bayou
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
“You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!”
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noun
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A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
“You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!”
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A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
“At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue.
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