See Also:

bejant (iou) and somewhat (iou)


bejant (iou)



bejant noun. Scot. Also bejan. M17.
[French bejaune, from bec jaune yellow beak, i.e. fledgling, with parasitic t.]
A first-year undergraduate, orig. at any Scottish university but now only at St Andrews.

somewhat (iou)



somewhat pronoun, noun, & adverb. ME.
[from SOME adjective + WHAT pronoun.]
A. pronoun & noun.
= SOMETHING pronoun & noun 1, 2. arch. ME.
= SOMETHING pronoun & noun 3a. LME-M19.
b. adverb. To some (slight or small) extent; slightly, a little; rather. ME.
more than somewhat colloq. very, extremely, very much. somewhat as in much the same way as, to some extent as.
W. Whewell I..acknowledge myself somewhat an idle correspondent. Day Lewis We were..somewhat isolated.., a Protestant enclave in a Catholic community. R. Jaffe The shock had sobered her somewhat. A. J. Ayer The house..was severely functional, somewhat in the Bauhaus style.
somewhatly adverb (rare) LME-E18.