poke salad
/ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee."
- "Whereas to most people, “salad” is made with raw greens, “poke salad” shoots and greens must be cooked, the cooking water changed and discarded several times. […] There are many documented deaths from eating improperly prepared “poke salad.”"
- "Despite the fact that the kudzu-like Phytolacca americana sprouts up all across North America, poke sallet, a dish made from the plant’s slightly-less-toxic leaves, is a regional thing, popular only to Appalachia and the American South."
- "If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad"
- "(see more at pokeweed)"
- "[…] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite)."
Etymology
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
poke salads (plural)
poke salet (alternative)
poke sallet (alternative)
poke salat (alternative)
polk salad (alternative)
poké salad (alternative)