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semmit
semmit
Hungarian
Pronoun
semmit
- accusative singular of semmi
- Ne mondj semmit. ― Don't say anything.
- Semmit sem jelent. ― It means nothing.
- Ez semmit sem ér. ― This is worthless.
- Nem tesz semmit. ― It doesn't matter./You're welcome./That's all right./Don't mention it.
Scots
Alternative forms
- simmet, semmet, simit, semat
Etymology
From medieval cloth samite (see velvet).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪmət/
Noun
semmit (plural semmits)
- singlet, vest
- 1948 – Hector Charles Cameron Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man, W. Heinemann, p. 7:
- Once on returning from a visit to the hospital he told us that an old man had spoken of his semmet, the Scots for what an Englishman calls his vest.
- 1962 – Jessica Brett Young Francis Brett Young: A Biography, Heinemann, p. 160:
- He made a grotesque figure — all inhibitions gone — in sadly shrunken white flannel trousers and cotton vest (his 'wee semmit').
- BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar document 1431.
- 'Put yer semmit on', it's a mair a winter
- 1948 – Hector Charles Cameron Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man, W. Heinemann, p. 7: