somedeal

1. (obsolete or dialect) In some measure or degree; somewhat, partly, partiallyExamples: "In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there."; "Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort."; "A great, sweet lady like you wouldn't think it, of course, but it's a godsend at times for a lone woman when she's ugly enough to turn cream sour, and somedeal crooked o' the body into the bargain."dialectalnot-comparableobsolete