英语词汇hoecake的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hoecake. It seems unlikely that the cakes of coarse cornmeal called hoecakes are so named because they were baked on hoes, for the hoe was a valuable tool on the frontier and bak- ing bread on one would damage and eventually destroy it. More likely the cake takes its name from the Indian nokehick, for “coarse cornmeal,” which the earliest settlers pronounced nocake. These settlers called the cake baked from this meal no- cake, too, but the name changed to hoecake over the years, per- haps because this was close in sound to nocake and people thought that nocake couldn’t possibly be the name for a cake that did exist! All this aside, however, the Japanese sukiyaki does mean “shovel-broil,” the dish made by Japanese peasants on their shovels.

词汇	hoecake
词源	hoecake. It seems unlikely that the cakes of coarse cornmeal called hoecakes are so named because they were baked on hoes, for the hoe was a valuable tool on the frontier and bak- ing bread on one would damage and eventually destroy it. More likely the cake takes its name from the Indian nokehick, for “coarse cornmeal,” which the earliest settlers pronounced nocake. These settlers called the cake baked from this meal no- cake, too, but the name changed to hoecake over the years, per- haps because this was close in sound to nocake and people thought that nocake couldn’t possibly be the name for a cake that did exist! All this aside, however, the Japanese sukiyaki does mean “shovel-broil,” the dish made by Japanese peasants on their shovels.
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