succotash

/ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

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noun

American usage; Uncountable

"Some of their modes of cookery have been adopted, and are retained. [...] [T]heir nokehike, which is corn parched and pounded, their ſuckataſh, which is a mixture of corn and beans boiled, are much uſed, and very palatable."
"This lordly dish is made of oak, and will contain about six quarts, which was indeed a goodly quantity, whether of nokehike, appoon, nausamp, or sukketash, for the breakfast of his tawny majesty."

Borrowed from Narragansett msíckquatash (“boiled corn kernels”).

succotashes (plural)

suffering succotash

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