Summet vs Summat - What's the difference?
summet | summat | Alternative forms |
*1805 , R. Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect , 105
*:The langer]] they gaze, still the [[more, mair they may wonder,
*::And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.
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(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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Summat is a alternative form of summet.
As pronouns the difference between summet and summat
is that summet is an alternative form of summat while summat is something.As adverbs the difference between summet and summat
is that summet is an alternative form of summat while summat is somewhat, to a limited extent or degree.summet
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Pronoun
(English Pronouns)Adverb
(-)summat
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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?