Summas vs Summat - What's the difference?
summas | summat |
(British, regional) Something.
* 1809 , Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine , volume 34, no. 202, page 185
*:...every gentleman tips us summat , we looks for it as natural as possible.
*1825 October 12, (Walter Scott), Letters (published 1935), IX.245
*:They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable.
:1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.i.10
::A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things.
* 1947 , Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton , page 53
:1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
::‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
* 2006 , Robin Jarvis, Thomas , page 20
(British, regional) Somewhat, to a limited extent or degree
*1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.viii.172
*:It's summat -like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!
English pronouns
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As a noun summas
is .As a pronoun summat is
(british|regional) something.As an adverb summat is
(british|regional) somewhat, to a limited extent or degree.summat
English
Alternative forms
* sommat * sumet (17th century ) * summut, zum'ot, summot (18th – 19th centuries ) * sumat, summet, zumat, zummat, zummet, zummut (19th century )Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat ?
- Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?