nokehick

alternative nokehike

1. uncountableSynonym of nocake.

   Nókehick | Parch'd meal, which is a readie very wholeſome food.

   [1643, Roger Williams, “Of Eating and Entertainment”, in A Key into the Language of America: Or, An Help to the Language of the Natives in that Part of America Called New-England. […], London: […] Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 11

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   [T]heir Diet has not a greater Dainty than their Nokehick, that is a ſpoonful of their parch'd meal, vvith a ſpoonful of VVater, vvhich vvill ſtrengthen them to travel a Day together; […]

   1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book III (Polybius. […]).] [The Third Part.] The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America: Or, The Life of the Renowned John Eliot; […].”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, part III (Or, Eliot as an Evangelist), page 191, column 2

   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.

   1792, Jeremy Belknap, “Monuments and Relics of the Indians”, in The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: […] Belknap and Young, […], →OCLC, pages 92–93

   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.

   1814, Timothy Alden, “551. A Trophy from the Wigwam of King Philip, when He was Slain, in 1676, by —— Richard. […]”, in A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, pentade I, volume III, New York, N.Y.: S. Marks, […], →OCLC, page 165

   Mic-ki-nac sat on a fallen tree, / And of savory no-ke-hike partook, […]

   1844, W[illia]m H[owe] C[uyler] Hosmer, “Canto Fourth. The Bower.”, in Yonnondio, or Warriors of the Genesee: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, New York, N.Y.: Wiley & Putnam; Rochester, N.Y.: D. M. Dewey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 115

   Nookhick or nokehick, the Indian name of the meal of parched corn, was pronounced nocake, by the English, who sometimes hired Indian women to prepare it for them. Winthrop says the parched corn was "turned almost inside outward, and was white and floury." It must have resembled our parched popcorn.

   1863, Sylvester Judd, chapter XXXII, in History of Hadley, including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts, […], Northampton, Mass.: […] Metcalf & Company, →OCLC, footnote ‡, page 366

   Synonyms: nocake