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mocuck

mocuck noun: a box-like container made from birch-bark, especially one in which sugar is stored.

Noun

mocuck (plural mocucks)

  1. (US) A 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

Forms of mocuck

pluralmocucks
alternative formmocock

Origin of mocuck

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

Questions about mocuck

What does mocuck mean?
Mocuck means a box-like container made from birch-bark, especially one in which sugar is stored.
What part of speech is mocuck?
Mocuck is a noun.
What is the plural of mocuck?
The plural of mocuck is mocucks.

Words near mocuck in the dictionary

  1. mocs
  2. moctamide
  3. Moctezuma
  4. Moctezuma's revenge
  5. moctezumite
  6. mocuck
  7. mocucks
  8. mocuddum
  9. mocuddums
  10. mocudrama
  11. mocudramas

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