词汇 | bayou |
词源 | bayou. A marshy, sluggish outlet of a lake or river; any slow- moving body of water. Used chiefly in the lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf States, it probably derives from the Choctaw bayuk for a river forming part of a delta. Louisiana is some- times called the Bayou State. |
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