bayou

CEFRC1

/ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/

noun

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01
noun
a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
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noun
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A surname.

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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!
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.

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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!
1892, Walt Whitman, “A Leaf for Hand in Hand”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 109
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.
1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2

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From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue.