Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water.
- noun A sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the southern United States, the outlet of a lake, or one of the several outlets of a river through its delta; a sluggish watercourse.
- noun An abandoned portion of a river-channel forming a lake or swamp following the general course of the main stream: a special case of “ox-bow lake.” The bayous of the lower Mississippi river are typical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Southern U. S. An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slow-moving, often
stagnant creek or river. - noun A
swamp , amarshy (stagnant ) body of water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bayou is a French word meaning slow-moving waterway.
Archive 2010-05-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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The bayou is a French word meaning slow-moving waterway.
Blue Bayou Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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It's what they call a bayou in parts of Louisiana and Texas.
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State had something this big to celebrate, Dale Brown was storming the sidelines in bayou country.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
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It wasn't until Favre went to Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg when he became known as a bayou gunslinger.
bilby commented on the word bayou
Sometimes I wish we had more search options. For example if I wanted to find more words that had Choctaw origins.
December 12, 2018