Found 2 items, similar to Bayou.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bayou
bayou
n : a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used
mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bayou
Bayou
\Bay"ou\, n.; pl.
Bayous. [North Am. Indian bayuk, in F.
spelling bayouc, bayouque.]
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. [Southern U.
S.]
[1913 Webster]
A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly
northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. --G. W.
Cable.
[1913 Webster]