Rockahominy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Parched cornmeal. US, regional, uncountable

Etymology

From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian") rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), listed in William Strachey's vocabulary of Powhatan. Compare hominy.

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