somebody

• some body, some-body (obsolete)
• somebuddy, sombuddy, sombudy, sumbody, sumbuddy (eye dialect)
• sby (abbreviation)

From some +‎ body.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmbədɪ/, /ˈsʌmbɒdɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmbʌdi/, /ˈsʌmbədi/, /ˈsʌmbɑdi/

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somebody

1. Some unspecified person.

   Somebody has to clean this mess up.

Logically related to everybody and nobody. Becomes nobody via negation.

• someone

• nobody
• everybody
• anybody
• somewhere
• something

somebody (plural somebodys or somebodies)

1. Any person.
   • 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and the Fuel Crisis: Hearings..., page 88:

     So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.

2. A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

   I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.