Dictionaries › English

nocake

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊkeɪk/

The English word “nocake” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “nocake” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.