"semmit" meaning in Scots

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Noun

IPA: /sɪmət/ Forms: semmits [plural]
Etymology: From medieval cloth samite (see velvet). Head templates: {{head|sco|noun|||plural|semmits|||||cat2=|cat3=|head=}} semmit (plural semmits), {{sco-noun}} semmit (plural semmits)
  1. singlet, vest Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: simmet, semmet, simit, semat
    Sense id: en-semmit-sco-noun-4G6YyZ8C Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Scots entries with incorrect language header
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  "etymology_text": "From medieval cloth samite (see velvet).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semmits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "sco",
        "10": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
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        "6": "semmits",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "semmit (plural semmits)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "semmit (plural semmits)",
      "name": "sco-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sco",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "sco:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948, Hector Charles Cameron, Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man, W. Heinemann, page 7:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Jessica Brett Young, Francis Brett Young: A Biography, Heinemann, page 160:",
          "text": "He made a grotesque figure — all inhibitions gone — in sadly shrunken white flannel trousers and cotton vest (his 'wee semmit').",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar document 1431.",
          "text": "'Put yer semmit on', it's a mair a winter"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "singlet, vest"
      ],
      "id": "en-semmit-sco-noun-4G6YyZ8C",
      "links": [
        [
          "singlet",
          "singlet"
        ],
        [
          "vest",
          "vest"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "simmet"
        },
        {
          "word": "semmet"
        },
        {
          "word": "simit"
        },
        {
          "word": "semat"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪmət/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semmit"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From medieval cloth samite (see velvet).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "semmits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "10": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
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        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "semmit (plural semmits)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "semmit (plural semmits)",
      "name": "sco-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of Scots quotations",
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        "Scots lemmas",
        "Scots nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948, Hector Charles Cameron, Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man, W. Heinemann, page 7:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Jessica Brett Young, Francis Brett Young: A Biography, Heinemann, page 160:",
          "text": "He made a grotesque figure — all inhibitions gone — in sadly shrunken white flannel trousers and cotton vest (his 'wee semmit').",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar document 1431.",
          "text": "'Put yer semmit on', it's a mair a winter"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "singlet, vest"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "singlet",
          "singlet"
        ],
        [
          "vest",
          "vest"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪmət/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "simmet"
    },
    {
      "word": "semmet"
    },
    {
      "word": "simit"
    },
    {
      "word": "semat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "semmit"
}

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