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.
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- female ending
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- female fern
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- female gage
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- female impersonation
- female impersonator
- femaleism
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- femaleness
- female-only
- female-orientated
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- female pattern baldness
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- female pill
- female rhyme