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.
- time point
- time policy
- time-poor
- time-pressed
- time prize
- timer
- time race
- time rate
- time-related
- time-release
- time-resolved
- time reversal
- time reversal invariance
- time reversal symmetry
- time-reverse
- time-reversed
- time-ridden
- timerity
- times
- down to the wire
- down town
- downtown
- downtowner
- downtrend
- downtrodden