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smidgin

smidgin is the alternative spelling of smidgen.

Meaning of smidgen

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.
  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

Forms of smidgin

pluralsmidgins

Questions about smidgin

What is smidgin the alternative spelling of?
Smidgin is the alternative spelling of smidgen.

Words near smidgin in the dictionary

  1. smidges
  2. smidget
  3. smidgets
  4. smidgey
  5. smidgiest
  6. smidgin
  7. smidgins
  8. smidgy
  9. Smids
  10. SMIDSY
  11. SMIDSYs

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