summat

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summat

/ˈsʌmət/
/ˈsʊmət/
/ˈzʌmət/
/ˈzʊmət/

Sounds like summit (weak vowel merger) · Rhymes with -ʌmət

Where it comes from

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).

pronoun summit · sommat · sommit · sumat · summet · zumat

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

adverb summit · sommat · sommit · sumat · summet · zumat

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

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@misc{summat_2026,
  title = {summat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/summat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}