Smidgen

/ˈsmɪd͡ʒɪn/ · noun

Meaning

Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace..

Definitions by Sense

1. Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
2. (by extension) Chiefly in the form a smidgen of a: a very small or insignificant person or thing; also, an instance of such a person or thing.

Example Sentences

Move it a smidgen to the right.

Would you like some more cake? ―I’ll have a smidgen.

Unkle Will says when he tould her to mind the siggering in the Crock,—she run to the Spence for a smidgen of skalded cream.

It's jest a meracle we wa'n't all blowed to smidgens, the hull b'ilin' lot of us.

He didn't look the least smidgen like our Mart Mayo, but if they was both on the track in a lyin match, whilst he might not beat old Mart, I am satisfied he would make the track devilish dusty for a few heats anyhow.

I could listen to forty million men like this candidate expound his views and it wouldn't alter me one smidgen in the belief that Carson Dwight has acted only as a true Christian would.

Aw right, you go right in and tell 'em the truth, all of it, every last smidgen.

['][T]he girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.' / 'No will of her own?' / 'Not a smidgeon.[']

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• smidgens
• smidgeon
• smidgin

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