skosh
/skoʊʃ/
skosh noun: a tiny amount; a little bit.
Noun
skosh (plural skoshes)
- A tiny amount; a little bit.
- He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.
- “Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.2002, Jan Hornung, Kiss the Sky: Helicopter Tales, →ISBN, page 62
- Antonyms:
- scad
Examples of skosh in a sentence
- Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.2003, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black, →ISBN, page 216:
- I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder; […]2005, Bill Hylton, Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery, →ISBN:
- Wondrously weird and a skosh too long, “Good Manners” is a dark Brazilian fable of animalistic passions and social isolation.2018 July 26, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil”, in New York Times:
Synonyms of skosh
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Forms of skosh
| plural | skoshes |
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Origin of skosh
Borrowed from Japanese 少し (sukoshi, “a little bit”), originally US armed forces slang.
Words that rhyme with skosh
Questions about skosh
- What does skosh mean?
- Skosh means a tiny amount; a little bit.
- How do you use skosh in a sentence?
- Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.
- What part of speech is skosh?
- Skosh is a noun.
- How do you pronounce skosh?
- Skosh is pronounced /skoʊʃ/ (US).
- What is the plural of skosh?
- The plural of skosh is skoshes.
Words near skosh in the dictionary
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