nocake.
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
Meaning & usage
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
Where this word comes from
A respelling, probably influenced by cake, of nokehick, nokehike, which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick or Massachusett nookhik (“nocake”, literally “(that which is) pounded till soft”); the word is related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”), and English rokeag and yokeag.
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