Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Parched maize pounded into meal, formerly much used by the Indians of North America, especially when on the march.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Indian corn parched and pounded intomeal (powder ), used for food by theNative Americans .
Etymologies
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A respelling, probably influenced by "cake", of "nokehike", which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick; compare Abenaki nokhigan ("flour"). Related to rokeag and yokeag.
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Examples
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This preparation of corn was called nocake or nookick.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
leaden commented on the word nocake
“The cake is a lie.”
June 3, 2012