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bayou.

bayou (a slow-moving, sometimes stagnant body of water left behind by the meandering of the Mississippi River in Louisiana or elsewhere)

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noun/ba.ju//ba.ju/Louisiana
  1. bayou (a slow-moving, sometimes stagnant body of water left behind by the meandering of the Mississippi River in Louisiana or elsewhere)

    masculine
  2. stream (a small river)

    Louisiana · also · masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.