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
- theatricalise
- theatricalism
- theatricality
- theatricalization
- theatricalize
- theatrically
- theatrics
- the Australian dream
- the Axis
- the ayes have it
- the Azoic
- the back of an envelope
- the back of beyond
- the back of one's mind
- the Backs
- the Balearics
- the ball is in your court
- the ball of the foot
- the ball of the thumb
- Theban
- the Bank of Mum and Dad
- the Bar
- the Bard
- the Bard of Avon
- the bare bones