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summat

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmət/

The English word “summat” has 2 meanings listed here.

pronoun

  1. Something.

adverb

  1. Something (“to a degree”); somewhat.

Etymology

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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