nocake

Indian corn, from which nocake is made.

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

A respelling, probably influenced by cake, of nokehick, nokehike, which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick or Massachusett nookhik; the word is related to Abenaki nokhigan, and English rokeag and yokeag.

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