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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

Poor′ Joe′, Coastal Georgia, South Carolina, and the Bahamas.

Dialect Termsa heron.

a West African source; compare Vai (Mande language of Liberia and Sierra Leone) podžo heron
probably 1730–40, American.

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