smidgeon

Noun

smidgen (plural smidgens)

1. (informal) Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
   • Move it a smidgen to the right.

   Synonyms:

   drop, pinch, smidge, smidget, smidgy, smitch, touch, ace, atom, thought

   Antonyms:

   abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload

2. (broadly, informal) Chiefly in the form a smidgen of a: a very small or insignificant person or thing; also, an instance of such a person or thing.
   • In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?1952 September 19, John Steinbeck, chapter 23, in East of Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, book 3, section 3, page 289

   Synonyms:

   dwarf, midget, pipsqueak, shorty, absolute zero, also-ran, chopped liver, cipher, crumb, Joe Nobody

   Antonyms:

   bulk, giant, behemoth, Brobdingnagian, colossus, ettin, Goliath, hulk, hunk, jumbo