suttin

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English[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

suttin

  1. (especially New York City) Pronunciation spelling of something, representing African-American Vernacular English.
    • 2019 February 20, @paydrouk, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 15 October 2023:
      My dad texts me like he's tryna grab a draw or suttin 😂
    • 2021, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, New York, N.Y. […]: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
      Maybe Creeper wouldn't have done it if all the mandem hadn't been out on the block, soaking up the sun. But they were and Trickz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.

References[edit]

  • Ginia Bellafante (2013 May 11) “Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-27:
    For example, Jacob Eisenstein, who heads the computational linguistics lab at Georgia Tech and appears in the film, has studied regionalisms on Twitter, and found that the word, "suttin"— meaning "something" — appears 10 times as often in Twitter posts from New York as it does in the rest of the United States.