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Summat

//ˈsʌmət// adv, pron, slang

Definitions

Adverb

1
Something (“to a degree”); somewhat. England, Yorkshire, informal, not-comparable
"It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!"

Pronoun

1
Something. England, Yorkshire, indefinite, informal, pronoun
"...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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).

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