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nocake U.S.|ˈnəʊkeɪk|
Forms: α. 7–9 nocake, 7, 9 nokake. β. 7–8 nokehick, 8 -hock, nuichicke.
[American Indian: Narragansett nokehick, Natick noohkik, maize.]
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal.
α1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. 68 The best of their victuals for their journey is Nocake (as they call it), which is nothing but Indian Corne parched in the hot ashes. a1676New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1883) XXXVII. 366, 300 small baggs for each man to carry nokake,..50 bush. Indian corne parched and beaten to nokake. 1760[see β]. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Nocake, an Indian word still used in some parts of New England. 1875Temple & Sheldon Hist. Northfield 46 Corn was parched and beaten fine; and sometimes was made into balls with suet. Thus prepared it was called nokake.
β1643R. Williams Key 11 Nókehick, parch'd meal, which is a readie very wholesome food, which they eate with a little water. 1691C. Mather Life Eliot 79 Their diet has not a greater dainty than their nokehick, that is a spoonful of their parched meal. 1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. (1765) 465 A small pouch of parched corn, ground or rather pounded into meal, and called Nuichicke, which is well enough translated Nocake. 1766Gazetteer 2 Jan. 2/1 Samp, hominy, succatash, and nokehock, made of it, are so many pleasing varieties. |