Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

summat

/ˈsʌmət/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: sum-mat
IPA: /ˈsʌmət/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

Informal

adv

Something (“to a degree”); somewhat.

Informal

Example Sentences

"...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible."
"They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable."
"A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things."
"He were a-going to gie I summat for’n, but like enough it’ll be worth more to a gent like yourself."
"Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat?"
"Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right."

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).

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

summit (alternative) sommat (alternative) sommit (alternative) sumat (alternative, obsolete) summet (alternative, obsolete) zumat (alternative, obsolete) zummat (alternative, obsolete) zummet (alternative, obsolete) zummut (alternative, obsolete) summut (alternative) zum'ot (alternative) summot (alternative)

Homonyms

summit (weak vowel merger) summit

Questions

How do you pronounce summat?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsʌmət/.
What does summat mean?: Something.
Where does summat come 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).

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