pikin.
/ˈpiːki/, U.S. /ˈpiˌki/ Bread made from maize-meal, baked in very thin sheets on heated stones by the Hopi Indians of the south-western U.S.
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1859 T. H. Haskell MS Diary (Brigham Young Univ. Libr.) 16 Nov. He spent the day trading for peak, dried peaches.
1893 T. Donaldson Moqui Pueblo Indians 72 Piki, or corn bread of many colors, is plentiful, and the evidences of a feast are on every hand.
1936 A. M. Stephen Hopi Jrnl. II. 1197 The men quarry out and roughly dress the piki stone to required dimensions, but the women finish and smooth it by rubbing.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 119/2 The [Hopi] Pueblos knew fifty-two ways of cooking corn. Most of them weren't unlike the ways other Indians cooked it, but the ‘paper bread’, called piki, belonged to them alone.
1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 50 There are always the women..who make fry bread and piki bread.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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