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summat

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English

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Alternative forms

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summit,sommat,sommit
sumat,summet,zumat,zummat,zummet,zummut(19th century)
summut,zum'ot,summot(18th–19th centuries)
sumet(17th century)

Etymology

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Dialectal variant ofsomewhat attested from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested that it might be a contraction of "some that" inA Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill (page 78).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmət/,/ˈsʊmət/,/ˈzʌmət/,/ˈzʊmət/
Homophone:summit(weak vowel merger)

Pronoun

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summat (indefinite pronoun)

(England, especially Lancashire, Yorkshire, informal)Something.
- 1809, Theodore Hook, “Killing No Murder”, inThe Sporting Magazine, volume34, number202, page185:
  ...every gentleman tips ussummat, 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 asum'mat comfortable.
- 1859,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, inAdam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book first,page10:
  A man must learnsummat beside Gospel to make them things.
- 1929,John Cowper Powys,Wolf Solent, page129:
  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, page53:
  Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor orsummat?
- 1997 June 26,J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, inHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London:Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN:
  Gotsummatfer yeh here – Imighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.
- 2006, Robin Jarvis,Thomas, page20:
  Why go all the way to findsummat that ain’t there?
- 2013,Alex Turner, “Do I Wanna Know?”, in Jamie Cook, Nick O'Malley, Matt Helders (music),AM, track 1:
  Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift the type / That sticks around likesummat in your teeth?

Adverb

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summat (notcomparable)

(England, especially Lancashire, Yorkshire, informal)Something(“to a degree”);somewhat.
- 1859,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, inAdam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book first,page172:
  It'ssummat-like to see such a man as thati' the desk of a Sunday!