summat

English

Alternative forms

• sumet, summot (18th – 19th centuries)
• sumat, summet, summut, zumat, zummat, zummet, zummut (19th century)
• summat (19th century – present)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsʌmət/
• IPA: /ˈzʌmət/

Homonyms: summit (in some dialects)

Etymology

Alteration of somewhat

Pronoun

summat

1. (UK, regional) Something.
   • 1773: John Byrom, Miscellaneous Poems, p. 164

     Is it not ſent to make a Mon to ſwear

     Summot abaoot the King, and his reet Heir?

   • 1790: Ann Wheeler, The Westmorland Dialect, with the Adjacency of Lancashire & Yorkshire, in Four Familiar Dialogues, p. 59 (1821 edition)

     naw yaurs may git while they er young, an seaav sumet agayn they er aud.

   • 1805: R. Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, p. 105

     The langer they gaze, still the mair they may wonder,

     And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.

   • 1808: Sketches of Character, or Specimens of Real Life, vol. 2, p. 130

     I was going to mentoin summut by way of proof poz

   • 1809: Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder", in The Sporting Magazine, vol. 34, no. 202, p. 185

     every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible.

   • 1813: Patience and Perserverance; or, the Modern Griselda, vol. 1, p. 60

     besides, he az been always doing zummut for her ever zince her feather died—zo he as.

   • 1825: James Jennings, Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire, p. 119

     A thawt, an if a war alive,

     That zummet war tha matter.

   • 1826: "First Love", in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 20, no. 115, p. 158

     Thee musn’t lumber the room, if thee’l not drink zummat.

   • 1839: John Russel Smith, Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects: Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, by Various Writers in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, p. 35

     I laaid me dawn on a breaad scar an sean fel asleep, tul sumet weaakend me varra caad omme feace.

   • 1839: Benson Earle Hill, Home Service; or, Scenes and Characters from Life, vol. 1, p. 282

     If I could a lugged back the oss, that mought a bin wuth zumat.

   • 1841: Charles Selby, Maximums & Speciments of William Muggins, Natural Philosopher and Citizen of the World, p. 313 (1859 edition)

     ‛Salem aleicum,’ says she; which means, How do you do, or sumat hequivalent to it.

   • 1849: William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches, vol. 1, p. 117

     And yet it may mean summot

   • 1947: Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton, p. 53

     Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat?

   • 2006: Robin Jarvis, Thomas, p. 20

     Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?

   • 2009: Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man

     I said to the barman “Tha mun avail thissen o summat anorl”

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Finnish

Noun

summat

1. Plural form of summa