summat

Something (“to a degree”); somewhat.

Adverb

  1. Something (“to a degree”); somewhat.
    • It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday! - 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book...

Origin

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).

Forms

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Pronoun

  1. Something.
    • ...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible. - 1809, Theodore Hook, “Killing No Murder”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, number 202, page 185:
    • They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable. - 1825 October 12, Walter Scott, Letters (published 1935), IX.245
    • A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things. - 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page...

Forms

summit sommat sommit sumat summet zumat zummat zummet zummut summut zum'ot summot sumet