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samp¹

  • /samp/ UK

Rhymes with -amp

Where it comes from

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

noun samps

  1. US, countable, uncountable 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

sAMP²

noun

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of adenylosuccinic acid

Samp³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Polish Samp. It could also be a hypocoristic form of the personal name Samson.

proper noun Samps

  1. A surname from Polish.

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@misc{samp_2026,
  title = {samp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/samp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}