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yokeag

Syllables: yo·keag/ˈjəʊkiːɡ/US/ˈjoʊˌkiɡ/

yokeag noun: synonym of nocake.

yokeag: synonym of nocake
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Noun

yokeag (uncountable)

  1. (US) Synonym of nocake.
    • Tables were arranged inside and the festival was held Wednesday and Thursday and many visitors appeared for the midday meal, clam chowder, oyster stew, succotash and the famous traveling food—yokeag, made of mortars of pepperidge wood. Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors. It was light to carry...1995, Melissa Jayne Fawcett [Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel], The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, The Story of the Wolf People, Uncasville, Conn.: Mohegan Tribe, →OCLC, page 55
    • She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.2006, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 235
    Synonyms:
    nocake

Examples of yokeag in a sentence

  • Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors.1995, Melissa Jayne Fawcett [Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel], The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, The Story of the Wolf People, Uncasville...
  • One ceremonial food was "Yokeag." One year old yellow corn kernels were parched and ground to fine meal.2014, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, “An Affectionate Portrait of Frank Speck”, in Siobhan Senier, editor, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of...

Synonyms of yokeag

Origin of yokeag

From Mohegan-Pequot yoakheage, yok'hig, shortening of yok'higan (“(that which is) made soft”), related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”) (see nocake) and Quiripi *rōhkhīk (see rokeag).

Questions about yokeag

What does yokeag mean?
Yokeag means synonym of nocake.
How do you use yokeag in a sentence?
Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors.
What part of speech is yokeag?
Yokeag is a noun.
How do you pronounce yokeag?
Yokeag is pronounced /ˈjəʊkiːɡ/ (UK).

Words near yokeag in the dictionary

  1. yoke-footed
  2. yoke-pin
  3. yoke-pins
  4. yoke-toed
  5. yokeable
  6. yokeag
  7. yoked
  8. yokefellow
  9. yokefellows
  10. yokel
  11. yokeldom

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