samp
noun/sæmp/
/sæmp/
[uncountable] (South African English)- the inner parts of maize seeds that are pressed and broken roughly; a type of porridge that is made from thisWord Originmid 17th cent.: from Algonquian nasamp ‘softened by water’.
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