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Something
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- 1 Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. not-comparable
""Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?""
- 1 Somewhat; to a degree. not-comparable
"The baby looks something like his father."
- 2 Used to adverbialise a following adjective colloquial, especially, not-comparable
"I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly)"
- 1 An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
"Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within."
- 2 An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
"What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?"
- 1 An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. indefinite, pronoun
"I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what."
- 2 A quality to a moderate degree. colloquial, indefinite, pronoun
"The performance was something of a disappointment."
- 3 A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. colloquial, indefinite, pronoun
"She has a certain something."
- 4 Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way. colloquial, indefinite, often, pronoun
"He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice."
- 1 Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. colloquial
"1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said."
Etymology
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
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