name
Meaning 1
A surname from Polish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
samp
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UK: /samp/
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rhymes with -amp
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CMU ARPABET: S AE1 M P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 3
Abbreviation of adenylosuccinic acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish Samp. It could also be a hypocoristic form of the personal name Samson.
From Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn.