Bayou

Definition: Bayou

Bayou

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bayou" was first used: 1766. (references)

Etymology: Bayou \Bay"ou\, noun; plural Bayous. [North Am. Indian bayuk, in French spelling bayouc, bayouque.]. (Websters 1913)

Building & Civil Engineering

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Gulf Lake

Noun: land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet; frith, firth, ostiary, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles; continental slope, continental shelf.

River

Spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.

Crosswords: Bayou

French (bayou).

It was just like before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the waterlike that mountain lake. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

They're always having a good time down on the bayou, ("Ramblin' Man"; performing artist: Allman Brothers Band)

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou (1971)

Bayou (1957)

Blue Bayou (1946)

Evil in the Bayou (2003)

Bayou Shower (2002)

Jambalaya (On Bayou) (performing artist: Hank Williams Sr.)

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References

• Bayou Steel Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Bayou Moon (reference)

• Blue Bayou (reference)

• Jambalaya for the Soul: Humorous Stories and Cajun Recipes from the Bayou (reference)

• Midnight Bayou (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bayou (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Eve's Bayou (reference)

• Eve's Bayou (reference)

• Eve's Bayou (reference)

• Murder on the Bayou (reference)

• Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vol. 16: Battle in the Bayou (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nature's Symphonies: Sunrise in Bayou (reference)

• Blues on the Bayou (reference)

• Devil in the Bayou - The Gold Star Recordings (reference)

• Sea of Love: Louisiana Bayou Hits 1950-60's (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bayou Billy (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The ubiquitous mosquito of bayou country.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Boats moving through coastal bayou lined with Phragmites, commonly called roseau cane.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Shrimp boats at Bayou la Batre.Credit: Fisheries.

An aerial view of the tug loaded with rock traveling up Locust Bayou.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A view from Locust Bayou stub canal toward the Gulf of Mexico, rock is on the beach in the background.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Mr. Wardell Sanders, president of the Sweet Potato Growers Ass'n, at an Alcorn State University deomostration plot near Mound Bayou, MS.Credit: USDA.

Mr. James kWatson, Jr. with his cotton picker near Mound Bayou, MS.Credit: USDA.

Rashad Brooks loads fertilizer into hopper on farm of his uncles, James and Louis Sanders, near Mound Bayou, MS.Credit: USDA.

Louis Sanders and hired hands on his farm near Mound Bayou, MS.Credit: USDA.

Mr George Spears, one of the oldest farmers in Bolivar County, and Mr. Wardell Sanders, president of the Sweet Potato Growers Ass'n at an Alcorn State demonstration plot near Mound Bayou, MS.Credit: USDA.

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Health

Investigations of cases of HPS in Louisiana and Texas have yielded the unique viral sequence of a second, Bayou virus. (references)

The results led to the discovery of another hantavirus, named Bayou virus, which was linked to a carrier, the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris). (references)

Two other viruses in North America, Bayou and Black Creek Canal, cause HPS that fits the surveillance case definition, and the cases were recognized by clinicians as HPS. The few cases that have been evaluated seem to have more renal failure and higher elevations of serum creatine phosphokinase than the typical SNV infection. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bayou": bayou Cane ♦ bayou La Batre ♦ Bayou State ♦ bayou Vista ♦ Cinco Bayou ♦ Frenchmans Bayou ♦ Mound Bayou ♦ Pretty Bayou. Additional references.

Albanian

moçal (backwater, bog, Fen, Mars, Marsh, mire, morass, muskeg, quagmire, slew, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهير رافد, ‏جدول (brook, chart, creek, flow, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, index, list, panel, purl, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, table, tabulate, tally, wadi, water course). (various references)

Danish

braided flod. (various references)

Dutch

bocht (bend, bow, curve, elbow, flection, flexion, golf, gulf, horizontal curve, loop, refuse, road curve, rubbish, turn, turn-around, turning, turning bay, waste), oude arm, geul (berth, channel, deep, drain, dredged berth, furrow, grip, gully, gut, gutter, sludge, wrinkle). (various references)

Finnish

soinen joen suisto, soinen järven suisto, rämeinen joen haara. (various references)

French

bayou, marécage. (various references)

German

sumpfiger Flussarm. (various references)

Greek 

στόμιο λίμνησ, βάλτοσ (bog, mire, moor, morass, quagmire, swalle, swamp). (various references)

Hungarian

folyó mocsaras ága. (various references)

Italian

bayou. (various references)

Pig Latin

ayoubay

Portuguese

bayou. (various references)

Russian 

заболоченный рукав реки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rečni rukavac. (various references)

Spanish

brazo pantanoso. (various references)

Swedish

bayou, sumpligt utlopp, flätflod (anastomosing stream, braided river, braided stream), fördelningskanal (distributary, distribution rill, feeder, runner). (various references)

Thai

สาขาของแม่น้ำทางใต้ของอเมริกาที่ไหลเอื่อยๆ. (various references)

Turkish

bataklıklı kol. (various references)

Ukranian 

струмок через заболочену місцевість, рукав у дельті ріки. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhánh sông (distributary). (various references)

bazar. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bayou": bayous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bayou" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abihu, ayou, Ayoub, Ayubu, Bacou, bagou, Bahot, Baicoi, baio, Bakow, baloo, Balou, balyou, bavou, bayee, Bayeh, Baykonur, Baykov, baylou, bayo, Bayon, bayor, bayouc, Bayoumi, bayrum, bayu, Bedou, Beeyou, Beylul, biyo, biyou, boyau, boyou, boyu, Buyuk, byou, Daoyu, Fayoumi, mayou, Mbiyu, wayuu. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: buoy.

-2 letters: abo, aby, bay, boa, boy, buy, yob, you.

-3 letters: ab, ay, ba, bo, by, oy, ya, yo.

+1 letter: bayous.

+2 letters: buoyage, buoyant, hautboy.

+3 letters: boundary, buckayro, buoyages, buoyance, buoyancy, hautboys, layabout, obduracy, obituary, quotably.

+4 letters: baroquely, bodyguard, buckayros, buoyances, buoyantly, countably, layabouts.

+5 letters: absolutely, ambulatory, bawdyhouse, bigamously, boastfully, bodyguards, buoyancies, butylation, fabulously, incubatory, obdurately, rubythroat, scabrously, subtotally, subvocally, supposably, unsociably, urbanology, vocabulary, yarborough.

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