Skerrick

Quick meaning: Skerrick is a noun meaning (originally UK, dialectal, now chiefly Australia, New Zealand, chiefly in the negative) A very small amount or portion; the least bit.

Meaning

(originally UK, dialectal, now chiefly Australia, New Zealand, chiefly in the negative) A very small amount or portion; the least bit.

Example Sentences

Blue deepened in the east, the few skerricks of cloud went all the shades of pastel.

He stood in front of Vonnie Kyle and his eyes examined hers with every skerrick of judgment he could muster.

When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.

"I take visitors out to the Poor Knights today, and they're so excited by the fish life they're just about walking on water," says Wade Doak, one of the country's pioneer divers and underwater naturalists. "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was."

Word Forms

• skerricks

Synonyms for skerrick

Depending on context, synonyms include shred, skosh, trace, whit, ace, atom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scrimpt, scant, scrimption, scruple, scantling, scrap.

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