Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stew consisting of kernels of corn, lima beans, and tomatoes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish consisting of Indian corn (maize) and beans, variously prepared.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, Southern A
stew made fromkernels ofcorn ,lima beans ,tomatoes and sometimespeppers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word succotash itself is an anglicized version of a word from the Narragansett Indians.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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The word succotash itself is an anglicized version of a word from the Narragansett Indians.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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SteamyKitchen said ... succotash is my fav way to have lima beans. so maybe succotash + bacon is next on my list?
Uncle Albert, Juneteenth and lima beans | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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It's actually a dish known as succotash, which in its purest state is a simple dish of lima beans and corn.
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Starting with the unspeakably perverse dish "succotash" (lima beans + corn: now there's a recipe from the Depths of Hell cookbook), lima beans ruin every meal in which they make an appearance.
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Starting with the unspeakably perverse dish "succotash" (lima beans + corn: now there's a recipe from the Depths of Hell cookbook), lima beans ruin every meal in which they make an appearance.
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Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus ….
Eight Day Week 2002
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Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus ….
Eight Day Week 2002
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Vegetables of the fourth group, which include those which cannot well be classified in the other groups, lend themselves readily to combinations, such as succotash, that make for variety in food.
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Long before Sylvester the Cat, of “Sufferin’ succotash” fame—indeed, long before the arrival on these shores of the white man and his cartoons, the corn and lima bean dish known as succotash was a staple of American cuisine.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
skipvia commented on the word succotash
As served in the southern US, a side dish made of corn and lima beans.
October 29, 2007
kad commented on the word succotash
Or, as served in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, a dish that came in a box in the frozen food section and elicited groans from young children.
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word succotash
Ha ha! Same experience here...
Seriously, it's much better with fresh corn and fresh beans. If it's prepared that way, it suddenly makes sense why someone got the idea to mix those two things in the first place.
October 29, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word succotash
'Suffering succotash' - Sylvester
February 6, 2008