samp

See also: Samp and sAMP

English

Buckets containing samp

Etymology

From Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /samp/

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• Rhymes: -amp

Noun

samp (countable and uncountable, plural samps)

1. (chiefly US) An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
   • 1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 341,

     I asked him to give me a little of his Broth, or Water they [Horses feet] were boiling in; he took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of Samp, and bid me take as much of the Broth as I would.

   • 1882, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 50, page 549:

     The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.

   • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, page 18:

     'You kids have everything but you don't appreciate it. Mom must cook you beans and samps. Do you hear? Just beans and samps. That's all. Beans and samps.'

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 44:

     We remained in class until 12.45, and then had a lunch of samp, sour milk and beans, seldom meat.

   • 2004, Louise Cabral, A Pageant of Shadows, page 327:

     Abigail taught her the use of the samp mortar. Samp was corn broken into coarse grains and boiled as porridge.

   • 2005, Fran Osseo-Asare, Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, page 74:

     In the area of cuisine, the Xhosa have contributed many corn recipes, most famously samp and beans (umngqusho).

Anagrams

• AMPS, APMs, MAPs, MPAs, SPAM, Spam, amps, maps, pams, spam

Quiripi

Noun

samp

1. (Unquachog) hominy

References

• Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)

Wolof

Verb

samp

1. to erect

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 18