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summat

British  
/ ˈsʌmət /

pronoun

  1. not_standard something

    you gonna do summat about it or what?

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It must have got summat to do with it.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2013

Elsewhere, his band proudly hold on to the regional accents that can be casualties of a quest for pop stardom, and he peppers guttural grumbles with Yorkshire slang such as "summat".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2013

Though I don't really know what he did for a living: marketing or sales or summat for Findus.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012

For those unfamiliar with the denizens of Yorkshire and Lancashire, nowt means nothing and summat means something.

From Economist ● May 24, 2012

“Talk about summat else, Stan, there’s a good lad. Them Azkaban guards give me the collywobbles.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

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