skerrick
English
editEtymology
editUnknown. Originally used in British dialect.[1]
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editskerrick (plural skerricks)
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 117:
- When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.
- 2007 April, Kennedy Warne, “Blue Haven”, in National Geographic, section 74:
- "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".
References
edit- ^ James Lambert The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 2004, page 181.