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suckatash

suckatash is the alternative form of succotash.

Meaning of succotash

Noun

succotash (usually uncountable, plural succotashes)

  1. (US, usually) A stew made from kernels of corn, lima beans, tomatoes and sometimes peppers.
    • 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

Questions about suckatash

What is suckatash the alternative form of?
Suckatash is the alternative form of succotash.

Words near suckatash in the dictionary

  1. suckable
  2. suckage
  3. suckanhock
  4. suckanhocks
  5. suckas
  6. suckatash
  7. suckauhock
  8. suckboy
  9. suckboys
  10. sucked
  11. sucked a big one

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suckatash (page history and authors); succotash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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