Bayou vs Slue - What's the difference?
bayou | slue |
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
(nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
To turn something sharply.
* Charles Dickens
To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
To slide off course; to skid.
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
A slough; a run or wet place.
As nouns the difference between bayou and slue
is that bayou is a slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river while slue is the act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.As a verb slue is
(nautical) to rotate something on an axis.bayou
English
(wikipedia bayou)Alternative forms
* byoNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Used almost exclusively to refer to bodies of water in Louisiana and the adjoining areas, including southern Mississippi, eastern Texas, and Arkansas.Anagrams
* ----slue
English
Alternative forms
* (mostly British ) slewVerb
(slu)- They laughed, and slued themselves round.