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tuckahoe U.S.|ˈtʌkəhəʊ|
Forms: 7 tockwough, tockawhough, -waugh, 8 tuccaho, 8–9 tuckahoo, 7– tuckahoe.
[ad. Powhatan or Virginian (N. Amer. Indian) tockawhoughe, app. cognate with Mohegan tquogh, Shawnee tukwhah. Webster (1911) compares Natick petukqunneg cake of bread, f. petukqui round, Cree pitikwaw made round.]
1. A name applied by North American Indians (esp. of Virginia) to edible roots of various plants: see Report of Smithsonian Inst. 1881, pp. 687–701.
1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 22 In Iune, Iulie, and August they feede vpon the rootes of Tockwough [printed -nough], berries, fish and greene wheat. 1612Proc. Virginia 87 in Capt. Smith's Wks. (Arb.) 155 Others would gather as much Tockwough roots in a day as would make them bread a weeke. 1662Laws of Virginia cxxxvi. 77 The poor Indians, whom, the seating of the English, hath forced from their wonted Conveniences of..gathering Tuckahoe, Cortenions, and other Wild-Fruits. 1671Ogilby Amer. 196 Their peculiar roots are the tockawaugh, good to eat [etc.].
a. Among these are or were the thick and starchy root-stocks of certain araceous plants, particularly Peltandra undulata or Virginica (formerly Arum Virginicum), the Arrow Arum, and Orontium aquaticum, the Golden-Club.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage viii. v. 635 [The aborigines of Virginia] haue two rootes;..the other called Tockawhough, growing like a flagge, of the greatnesse and tast of a Potato, which passeth a fierie purgation before they may eate it, being poison whiles it is raw. 1705Beverley Virginia iii. iv. (1722) 153 A tuberous Root they call Tuckahoe, which while crude is of a very hot and virulent Quality: But they can manage..to make Bread of it. 1770J. R. Forster Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. (1772) I. 225 To judge by these qualities the Tuckahoo may very likely be the Arum Virginicum.
b. Now app. restricted to an underground tuber-like production (Pachyma Cocos, Fries, Lycoperdon solidum, Clayton), prob. the sclerotium of some fungus, parasitic on tree-roots in the southern parts of North America, the affinities of which are uncertain. Also called Indian bread, Indian loaf, Indian head, and tuckahoe truffle.
1731Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc. p. x, Indians also eat the earth nuts which they call tuccaho. 1782T. Jefferson Notes State Virginia (1787) 58 Tuckahoe. Lycoperdon tuber. 1816in Massachusetts Spy 23 Oct. (Thornton), The name of Tuckahoe..has also been applied to the Troffle. 1866Treas. Bot., Tuckahoo,..a curious tuberous production,..has been referred by Fries to the genus Pachyma.
2. A nickname for the lowlands of Virginia; also for an inhabitant of this district. local U.S.
1817J. K. Paulding Lett. fr. South I. x. 112 The people [west of the Blue Ridge] call those east of the mountain Tuckahoes, and their country Old Virginia. 1835Lett. Virginia Springs (Philad.) 16–17 (Thornton) [The Blue Ridge] divides the Ancient Dominion into two nations, called Tuckahoes and Quo'hees; the former inhabiting the lowland. 1848–60Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v., Tuckahoe is often applied to an inhabitant of Lower Virginia, and to the poor land in that portion of the State. |
