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Summat vs Somewhat - What's the difference?

summat | somewhat |

As pronouns the difference between summat and somewhat

is that summat is (british|regional) something while somewhat is (archaic) something.

As adverbs the difference between summat and somewhat

is that summat is (british|regional) somewhat, to a limited extent or degree while somewhat is to a limited extent or degree.

As a noun somewhat is

more or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

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)
  • (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
    • Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat ?
  • :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
    • Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (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 ----

    somewhat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier) summat (and variants listed there)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a limited extent or degree.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}

    See also

    * slightly

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (archaic) Something.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
    • Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
  • * Robert Trail
    • But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  • * Grew
    • These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
  • * Dryden
    • Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
  • A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
  • * Tennyson
    • Here come those that worship me. / They think that I am somewhat .

    Statistics

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