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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Dialectal variant of somewhat attested from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested that it might be a contraction of "some that" in A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill (page 78).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
summat (indefinite pronoun)
- (England, especially Lancashire, Yorkshire, informal) Something.
1809, Theodore Hook, “Killing No Murder”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, number 202, page 185:...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible.
- 1825 October 12, Walter Scott, Letters (published 1935), IX.245
- They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable.
1929, John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent, page 129:He were a-going to gie I summat for’n, but like enough it’ll be worth more to a gent like yourself.
1947, Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton, page 53:Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat?
2006, Robin Jarvis, Thomas, page 20:Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?
Adverb
summat (not comparable)
- (England, especially Lancashire, Yorkshire, informal) Something (“to a degree”); somewhat.
Anagrams
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Noun
summat
- nominative plural of summa