skosh
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 少し (sukoshi, “a little bit”), originally US armed forces slang.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
skosh (plural skoshes)
- (Hawaii, informal) A tiny amount; a little bit.
- Synonyms: tad, smidgen, jot, skoosh, scooch; see also Thesaurus:modicum
- Antonym: scad
- He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.
- 2002, Jan Hornung, Kiss the Sky: Helicopter Tales, →ISBN, page 62:
- “Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.
- 2003, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black, →ISBN, page 216:
- Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.
- 2005, Bill Hylton, Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery, →ISBN:
- I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder; […]
- 2018 July 26, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil”, in New York Times[1]:
- Wondrously weird and a skosh too long, “Good Manners” is a dark Brazilian fable of animalistic passions and social isolation.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “skosh”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “skosh”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.