/suk"euh tash'/ , n.
a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, esp. lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
[ 1745-55, Amer.; msíckquatash boiled whole kernels of corn (c. Eastern Abenaki (F sp.) mesikoutar, equiv. to Proto-Algonquian * mes- whole + *- i·nkw- eye (hence, kernel) + *- ete·- be cooked (+ -w- ) + *- ali pl. suffix) ]