mocuck

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noun

A box-like container made from birch-bark, especially one in which sugar is stored.

OriginAlgonquian →
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Meanings

nounmocuck (plural mocucks)

plural mocucks · alternative mocock

  1. USA box-like container made from birch-bark, especially one in which sugar is stored.

    The Huron of Canada expanded the use of mocucks from cookery to the warming of squash seed over a fire […]

    2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, page 660

Origin

  1. Algonquian
  2. Englishmocuck

From an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe makak (“semi-rigid container, birch bark basket, box”).

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APA

mocuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mocuck

MLA

“mocuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mocuck. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mocuck,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mocuck.

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