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nocake.

Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈnəʊkeɪk/Received-Pronunciation/ˈnoʊˌkeɪk/General-American
  1. Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.

    uncountable
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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