HOW TO PRONOUNCE
bayou
/ˈbaɪu/
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What does bayou mean?
noun
- A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
- A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbaɪu/
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The slaves then took a straight course for the Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara road, about four miles distant.
A bayou running into this lake was joined by a canal with Cushion Lake.
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Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough.
My vessel being refitted, I decided to load her with the famous mammoth tridaena shell of Keeling, found in the bayou near by.
The wild-goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.