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smidgen

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/ˈsmɪd͡ʒɪn/
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/ˈsmɪd͡ʒɪn/ · /-ən/

Definition of smidgen

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (informal)Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
    “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.”
  2. (broadly, informal)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.
    “In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?”
    “Lucille wore one of those little smidgins of hats held on by inturned combs.”

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Etymology

Origin uncertain; possibly from smitch (“(originally Scotland, chiefly US) very small amount or quantity”) + possibly -in (a variant of -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting things considered collectively)). Smitch is…

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Origin uncertain; possibly from smitch (“(originally Scotland, chiefly US) very small amount or quantity”) + possibly -in (a variant of -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting things considered collectively)). Smitch is possibly: * derived from smitch (“smoke from a burning or smouldering thing; spot of dirt; blemish; dirt, grime”), a variant of smeech (“(southwest England) (dense or pungent) smoke; airborne dust”), from Middle English smeche, smek, smiche (“smoke from a burning or smouldering thing; cloud of smoke; fumes, vapour; smell”), from Old English smēc, smīc (“smoke; steam; vapour”), from Proto-West Germanic *smauki (“smoke”), related to Proto-Germanic *smeukaną (“to fume, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *smewgʰ- (“smoke”); or * borrowed from Scots smitch (“smudge, stain; blemish; very small amount, speck, trace; small insignificant person”), possibly a variant of English smutch (“dirty mark, smudge, stain; dirt, grime; slight indication”) (probably related to smudge, ultimate etymology unknown) and influenced by English smit (“(UK, dialectal) a stain”).

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