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Samp

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Polish.
Noun
  1. 1
    An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it. US, countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of adenylosuccinic acid. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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