summat

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).

pron

1. (colloquial, England, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire) Something.
   ...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible. 1809, Theodore Hook, “Killing No Murder”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, number 202, page 185
   They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable. 1825 October 12, Walter Scott, Letters (published 1935), IX.245
   He were a-going to gie I summat for’n, but like enough it’ll be worth more to a gent like yourself. 1929, John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent, page 129
   Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat? 1947, Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton, page 53
   Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there? 2006, Robin Jarvis, Thomas, page 20

adv

1. (colloquial, England, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire) somewhat, something (to a degree)
   It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday! 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.viii.172