smidge
- informal a very small amount or part
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Word Origin
C20: from smidgen
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Examples from the Web for smidge
Contemporary Examples
It was a little bit of Balmain, a smidge of Balenciaga, a few vague references to Yohji Yamamoto and Rick Owens.
Larry grew a full beard, but that was a smidge too country—“I looked like an Oak Ridge Boy”—so he pruned it down into a goatee.
I simply wish we could tone down the royal trappings just a smidge.
Historical Examples
She noodled at me, I noodled back at her, and her eyes crinkled charmingly whenever I managed a smidge of tuneful wit.
Down and Out in the Magic KingdomCory Doctorow
Word Origin and History for smidge
n.
short form of smidgen, 1902, American English dialect.
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