nocake

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnəʊkeɪk/    美 /ˈnoʊˌkeɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar. uncountable
    — If their imperious occaſions cauſe them to travell, the beſt of their victuals for their journey is Nocake, (as they call it) which is nothing but Indian Corne parched in the hot aſhes; the aſhes being ſifted from it, it is afterwards beaten to powder, and put into a long leatherne bag, truſſed at their backe like a knapſacke; out of which they take thrice three ſpoonefulls a day, dividing it into three meales.

词源

A respelling, probably influenced by cake, of nokehick, nokehike, which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick or Massachusett nookhik (“nocake”, literally “(that which is) pounded till soft”); the word is related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”), and English rokeag and yokeag.
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