Why this word is great
POKELOGAN — [Noun] A marsh or stagnant backwater adjacent to a stream or lake. Of uncertain origin, likely from an Algonquian language; compare Ojibwe pokenogun ("stopping place") and related to pocosin ("swamp"). Early spellings like Pokee Login suggest a four-syllable origin. Unlike "bog" (which hoards tannins and decay) or "pocosin" (which rises defiantly in scrubby thickets), a pokelogan is a quiet surrender—a place where moving water gives up and settles. It is the tea-colored stillness behind a bend in the river, the frog-haunted hollow where reflections blur into the silt, the forgotten pocket where time itself seems to stagnate. A pokelogan does not decay; it simply ceases to go anywhere.
noun
- A marsh; an area of grassy ground partly covered with (generally stagnant) water adjacent or connected to a stream or lake.“Moose sometimes wallow in pokelogans.”