During the slave days, a slave that would attempt to escape imprisonment by escaping through the swamps in the bayou of Louisiana or other swampy areas.
Today 9 of us went swampwalking at a swamp at Greenwood Park in NorthernBroome County NY. It was all ice. Try it in spring if you want to walk "into" the swamp.
An dialect of street talk, employing words and phrases commonly found in hip-hop culture and ebonics, but spoken in an exaggerated and slurred coastal southern accent. Most commonly used among white southern males between the ages of 18-34, predominantly in Florida. Swamptalk is a result of traditional rural white redneck culture heavily influenced by current African-American urban hip-hop culture. Speaking swamptalk does not make one a wigger; the majority of swamptalk speakers are, in fact, not wiggers.
Did you see Travis and Cody at the partylast night? They were so trashed I could barely understand either one with all the swamptalk between those two.