succotash

UK: /ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/ US: /ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/ ,(suk′ə tash′)

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suc•co•tash /ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/   n. [uncountable]

1. Food a cooked dish of beans, esp. lima beans, and kernels of corn.

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suc•co•tash  (suk′ə tash′), n. 

1. Food a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, esp. lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.

• Narragansett (English spelling, spelled) msíckquatash boiled whole kernels of corn (cognate with Eastern Abenaki (French spelling, spelled) mesikoutar, equivalent. to Proto-Algonquian *mes- whole + *-i·nkw- eye (hence, kernel) + *-ete·- be cooked (+ -w-) + *-ali plural suffix)
• 1745–55, American.

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succotash / ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/ noun

1. a mixture of cooked sweetcorn kernels and lima beans, served as a vegetable

Etymology: 18th Century: from Narraganset msiquatash, literally: broken pieces