# summat

Pronunciation: say "SUM-uht" /ˈsʌmət/

## Pronoun

1. Some thing that is not specified or named; an indefinite thing referred to in a general way. *(dialectal, England, Yorkshire)*
   - Simple: A thing that is not named, or that you do not know exactly.
   - _He muttered that summat had gone badly wrong at the mill that morning._
   - _She always kept summat by for hard times, a habit from leaner years._

## Adverb

2. To some extent or degree; partly but not entirely. *(dialectal, England, Yorkshire)*
   - Simple: A little bit, but not completely.
   - _He reckoned the weather had turned summat colder since the morning._
   - _The new lad seemed summat shy when the strangers came round._

## Origin

A dialectal variant of "somewhat," recorded from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested it might be a contraction of "some that."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/summat (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).