Etymology

tuckahoe

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Today it means: The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia. Full definition →

Powhatan tockawhoughe
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The story

  1. Powhatan · borrowed fromtockawhoughe
  2. English todaytuckahoe

From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root.

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