samp
/samp
/noun [mass noun] US & South African
Coarsely ground Indian corn, or a kind of porridge made from it.Within no time at all, bags of mealie-meal, rice, samp & beans, sugar and vegetables started pouring in....
- Sour milk porridge with sugar for pudding, crumbly phutu squeezed into a ball with my fingers and dipped into gravy, samp (broken maize kernels) boiled with beans, all favourites, and the gastronomic mixing of cultures didn't end there.
- The food was distributed after a short service and hymns, while token holders patiently queued to collect their parcels which consisted of mealie meal, flour, sugar, samp, beans, oil and salt.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Algonquian nasamp 'softened by water'.
Rhymes
- full-blood
- full-blooded
- full-bloodedly
- full-bloodedness
- full-blown
- full board
- full-bodied
- full bore
- full-bottomed
- full-breasted
- full-bred
- full brother
- full colour
- full-court press
- full-cream
- full dress
- full dress uniform
- full employment
- full English breakfast
- fuller
- fullerene
- Fuller, Margaret
- Fuller, Melville Weston
- Fuller, R. Buckminster
- fuller's earth