somemore

English

Alternative forms

• some more, (rare) sum more

Etymology

From some more.

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌ(m)mɔː/, [ˈsɐ˧.mɔː˦]

Adverb

somemore (not comparable)

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Moreover; introduces additional information to illustrate a point the speaker is making.

   — Are you gonna attend the lecture tomorrow?

   — No. It's too boring. It starts at 8 a.m. somemore.

   • 1989, Eleanor Wong, Jackson on a Jaunt, or, Mistaken Identities, page 8, lines 15–16:

     Ay, the wedding is next month already. Some more you know I’m very busy with work these days.

   • 2005 July 21, Aku, “Free wifi hotspot”, in soc.culture.malaysia‎^[1] (Usenet):

     upm has lots and lots of hotspot.can connect to power socket somemore

   • 2006 September 28, averx1234, “Univeristy^{[sic – meaning University]} Of Wollongong (SIM) future/current/students come in!!!”, in HardwareZone Forums‎^[2]:

     UOW better in SIM....good in everything..fourth university somemore.......UOW all the way............

   • 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

     I told him to go to Woodlands to buy durian for me. He came back and said no durian. But he some more said-ah, he got see people selling durian in Bukit Timah. I ask him-ah. Why you never buy from Bukit Timah.

   • 2008 August 11, raindrops, “cavalier king charles spaniel, do you want/have one?”, in Lowyat.NET‎^[3]:

     i always wanted a cavalier king charles spaniel but it is a hard breed to find, somemore quite rare in malaysia.

References

1. Tan Yan Er (2020 April 13) “On the Semantics of somemore in Colloquial Singapore English”, in mitcho.com‎^[4]