skosh
/skəʊʃ
/noun US informal
A small amount; a little: the car could do with a skosh more room in the back...
- Wigfield was very funny last night, but the teeniest skosh of a disappointment (to me).
- The market was down over 100 points several times today (but just a skosh) and wound up down 80.
- I'd almost say Cap… But DD has inched it out by the tiniest of skoshes.
Origin
1950s: from Japanese sukoshi.
- narrow-minded
- narrow-mindedly
- narrow-mindedness
- narrow money
- narrow-mouthed
- narrow-necked
- narrowness
- narrow-range
- Narrows
- narrow seas
- narrow-sighted
- narrow something down
- narrow-souled
- narrow-spirited
- narrow squeak
- narrow wares
- narrow weaver
- narrow work
- narsarsukite
- narthecal
- narthex
- narvesh
- Narvik
- narvish
- narwhal