skooshes

Noun (1)

skoosh (plural skooshes)

1. (Scotland, informal) A squirt (of liquid).
   • But Mrs Strain ducked and dodged and weaved, keeping the bucket steady between her feet and managing to give the two or three cats running about the place a skoosh of milk straight from the udder into their mouth.2002, Hugh Robinson, Back Across the Fields of Yesterday, →ISBN
2. (Scotland, informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
   • After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.2013, Joe Pieri, The Big Men

Noun (2)

skoosh (plural skooshes)

1. (informal) A smidge, a small amount.
   • […] his wife, who might have outweighed him by forty pounds, wore a cut-off sweatshirt over a red blouse, and what seemed to be men's Levis, cut with a bit more than "a skoosh more room," as the ads say.1995, James C. Schaap, In the Silence There are Ghosts: A Novel, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   skosh, scooch, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental, bit

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