smidgen
/ˈsmɪdʒɪn
/(also smidgeon or smidgin)
noun informal
A small amount of something: add a smidgen of cayenne...
- Jake White's Springboks played almost as well as the Australians really, lacking only a smidgeon of dash in the final 15-20 minutes.
- She used the curvature of the chip to hold a smidgen of salsa.
- Anybody with a smidgin of web sense will instantly spot that as an urban legend.
Origin
Mid 19th century: perhaps from Scots smitch in the same sense.
Rhymes
- palm crab
- palm cross
- Palmdale
- palmed
- Palme d'Or
- palmella
- palmelloid
- Palme, Olof
- palmer
- Palmer, Arnold
- palmered
- Palmer, Samuel
- Palmerston, 3rd Viscount
- Palmerstonian
- Palmerstonianism
- Palmerstonism
- Palmerston North
- palmery
- palmette
- palmetto
- palmetto banner
- palmetto basket
- palmetto brush
- palmetto bug
- palmetto bush