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prettygoodwordpokelogan (POHK-loh-guhn) - n. (Northeastern U.S.) marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
Very tightly regional usage. Origin is uncertain, but in tideland Maryland and Virginia, a woodland marshy area is called a pocosin, which is almost certainly from a local Algonquian language, and given the similarities, it is often speculated that pokelogan is from one of the northern Algonquian languages, but no source has been substantiated.
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Very tightly regional usage. Origin is uncertain, but in tideland Maryland and Virginia, a woodland marshy area is called a pocosin, which is almost certainly from a local Algonquian language, and given the similarities, it is often speculated that pokelogan is from one of the northern Algonquian languages, but no source has been substantiated.
---L.
