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单词 nocake
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nocaken.

Brit. /ˈnəʊkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈnoʊˌkeɪk/
Forms:

α. 1600s 1800s nokake, 1600s– nocake, 1700s nokaeg, 1800s– no-cake, 1900s– nokick.

β. 1600s– nokehick Brit. /ˈnəʊkˌhɪk/, U.S. /ˈnoʊkˌ(h)ɪk/, 1700s nokehock, 1700s nokohick, 1800s nokehike.

Also with capital initial.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Narragansett. Partly a borrowing from Massachusett. Etymons: Narragansett nókehick; Massachusett nookhik.
Etymology: < Narragansett nókehick and its cognate Massachusett nookhik nocake, lit. ‘thing pounded soft’ (in the Bible translating ‘meal’, ‘flour’, ‘ground corn’). Compare rokeag n., yokeag n.The α. forms (especially nocake , no-cake , remodelled after cake n. and adj.) show various degrees of folk etymology applied to this word from the time of its first use. The β. forms, which are closer to the Narragansett and Massachusett etymons, have been revived in recent usage.
U.S.
Maize which is parched and pounded into meal, used as an article of food. Cf. rokeag n., yokeag n.
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α.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. vi. 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.
a1676 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1883) XXXVII. 366 300 small baggs for each man to carry nokake,..50 bush. Indian corne parched and beaten to nokake.
1723 New-Eng. Courant 4 Feb. 2/2 A Cake or two of Bread, with a Pot of Nokaeg, were likewise put into the Coffin.
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 465 A small pouch of parched corn, ground or rather pounded into meal, and called Nuichicke, which is well enough translated Nocake.
1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 46 Corn was parched and beaten fine; and sometimes was made into balls with suet. Thus prepared it was called nokake.
a1880 T. R. Hazard Jonny-Cake Papers (1882) iv.48 No-cake was made of pounded parched Indian corn... I well remember the old no-cake mortar that used to stand in my grandfather's kitchen, upside down when not in use.
1948 Sat. Rev. 26 June 11/1 Aunt Luciny might play the part of a local witch with her ancient sagas, her herb remedies, and her baking of the Nocake.
1977 W. B. Talman How Things Began xiii. 126 One of the most useful foods was called rockahominy in Virginia and nokick in New England.
β. 1637 R. Williams Let. 2 June in G. W. LaFantasie Corr. Roger Williams (1988) I. 83 Your late message to the Neepmucks..hath wrought this Effect, that..they brought this present weeke divers baskets of their Nokehick and chesnuts to Canounicus.1691 C. Mather Life J. Eliot 79 Their diet has not a greater dainty than their nokehick, that is a spoonful of their parched meal.1720 D. Neal Hist. New-Eng. I. 27 When Fishing and Hunting fails, they [sc. Indians] live upon nothing but Nokohick.1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 465 A small pouch of parched corn, ground or rather pounded into meal, and called Nuichicke, which is well enough translated Nocake.1766 Gazetteer 2 Jan. 2/1 Samp, hominy, succatash, and nokehock, made of it, are so many pleasing varieties.1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. 257 The Indians dwell in wigwams... Their principal diet is Nokehick.1856 C. E. Potter Hist. Manchester, New Hampsh. 40 Their parched corn meal they preserved in leathern bags, ate it with their meat... It was called Nokehick.1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. (Food section) 4 When the men went hunting, they carried a pouch containing dehydrated fruit, dried venison, huckleberries and nokehick.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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