Succotash
/ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ/noun
A dish of corn and lima beans or other shell beans, often cooked together.
Did you know?“Succotash” entered English from Narragansett, and its history preserves an Indigenous food term that was already describing a real, everyday meal long before it hit American cookbooks.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-17th Century
Narragansett
msickquatash
“broken or boiled corn”
17th Century
English
succotash
“an Indigenous corn dish adopted into colonial English”
18th Century
English
succotash
“a New England dish of corn and beans”
Modern English
English
succotash
“corn combined with lima beans or other shell beans”