bayou

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In fact, it looked like the bayou was about to top its banks.

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  1. noun A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water.
  2. noun A sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds.

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  • But on the other side of the bayou was an even better spot where the fish were so plentiful and friendly they would all but jump into the boat. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • They were at the south edge of town, and the only buildings along the banks of the bayou were the occasional bait shop and a couple of dilapidated tar-paper shacks on stilts with boathouses made of rusting corrugated metal A spindly legged blue heron stood among the cattails near the bank, watching them pass. —  TAMI HOAG
  • For the bayou is different in the night than it is in the day. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
  • In fact, it looked like the bayou was about to top its banks. —  Blogs of War
  • The only sounds in the bayou were the trickle of water from the tidal pools, the wind in the tree-tops, the rat-tat-tat of a woodpecker, and the scream of a bob-cat. —  Blackbeard: Buccaneer
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  1. Louisiana French bayouque, bayou, possibly from Choctaw bayuk.

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  1. A corrupt form of French boyau, a gut, a long, narrow passage (cf. a similar use of English gut), from Old French boyel, boel, a gut, later English bowel, q. v.
 

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