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- The streams/swamps crisscrossing Louisiana
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- Sweet doughnuts, square-shaped and minus the hole, lavishly sprinkled
with powdered sugar.
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- Lots or plenty, used a lot with merci
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- Good appetite (literal) or "Enjoy!" when talking of food.
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- Name of a Cajun card game which requires the loser of a hand to stuff
the pot with chips.
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- Slang for Acadians, the French-speaking people who migrated to South
Louisiana from Nova Scotia.
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- A hot pepper that is dried and used to season many Louisiana dishes.
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- Honey or dear when speaking to the opposite sex, buddy
- or pal when addressing the same sex
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- Seafood that resemble small lobsters that live and grow
- in the mud of freshwater bayous.
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- People of mixed French and Spanish blood who migrated
- to or were born in Southeast Louisiana.
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- Ok, alright, agreed, understand
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- A tangy tomato-based sauce that usually made with crawfish
- or shrimp.
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- A party where traditional Cajun dance is performed.
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- to smoke somthing like a cigar, cigarettes, pipes, etc.
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- A spell, normally voodoo or hoodoo in nature
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- A robust roux-based soup thickened with okra or file'. There are thousands
of variations.
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- A rice dish with any combination of beef, pork, fowl, sausage, ham,
seafood and vegetables.
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- An attitude of happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
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- "Don't let go of the potato" which is slang for "don't
give up".
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- Laissez les bon temps rouler
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- lay-zay lay bon ton rule-ay
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- It's the Biggest Party on Earth!
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- Small. Used as slang for a small child.
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- "Head to head"; an intimate get-together or private
- conversation between two people.
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- A compound word formed from voir (to see) and là (there),
- translated literally as "see there".
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- Kind of Cajun dance music that is a combination of traditional
- Cajun, R&B and African blues.
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