succotash

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/ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/

noun

A stew made from kernels of corn, lima beans, tomatoes and sometimes peppers.

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Meanings

nounsuccotash (usually uncountable, plural succotashes)

plural succotashes

  1. USuncountableusuallyA stew made from kernels of corn, lima beans, tomatoes and sometimes peppers.

    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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

  1. Narragansettmsíckquatash
  2. Narragansettmsíckquatash
  3. Englishsuccotash

Borrowed from Narragansett msíckquatash (“boiled corn kernels”).

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