Definitions for samps

samps samp

Spelling: [samp]
IPA: /sæmp/

Samps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in samps (ampss).

Definitions for samps

noun

  1. coarsely ground corn.
  2. a porridge made of it.

Origin of samps

1635-45, Americanism; Narragansett (E spelling) nasàump cornmeal mush (cognate with Munsee Delaware nsá·pa·n Proto-Eastern Algonquian *nəhsa·pa·n)

Examples for samps

That was the time when samp should have been grubbing at his law books, but nary a grub for him.

So samp kind of hitched up his ambition and took the slack out of his habits for a few months and went to the legislature.

Then I put some of the hot water to the samp, and drank it up, and my spirits came again.

But samp's practice didn't seem to fall off—it only changed.

As the samp commences to swell and the water dries out add more.

Hominy and samp and Indian meal, when well cooked, are all most palatable.

So saying, she sprang into the carriage, and samp drove off.

Would a haunch of venison and a gallon of samp help Dagaeoga a little?

He took a dish and gave me one spoonful of samp, and bid me take as much of the broth as I would.

When a cowpuncher got in trouble his folks in the East always gave samp a big fee to get the boy out, and he did it.

Word Value for samps
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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