Some″what′ (?), n. 1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew.
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.
2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am somewhat. Tennyson.