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summat - What does it mean?

Definition of 'summat'

English

Alternative forms

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

Pronoun

(en-pron)
  • (British|regional) Something.
  • * 1809 , Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine , volume 34, no. 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.
  • :1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.i.10
  • ::A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things.
  • * 1947 , Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton , page 53
  • Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat ?
  • :1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
  • ::‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
  • * 2006 , Robin Jarvis, Thomas , page 20
  • Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (British|regional) Somewhat, to a limited extent or degree
  • *1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.viii.172
  • *:It's summat -like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!
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