Meaning of skoosh | Babel Free
/skuːʃ/Definitions
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A squirt (of liquid). Scotland, informal
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A smidge, a small amount. informal
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Something very easy; a piece of cake. Scotland, informal
Examples
“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.”
“1 pint of filtered water 2 dessert spoons of sugar (or honey) 4 nobs of butter (or one big lump) 1 big skoosh of lemon juice, hand squeezed 6 large free range eggs.”
“After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.”
“[…] 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.”
““Not even a little problem, just a skoosh of a problem, really.””
“Off-balance myself, I skidded to one knee and got up just a skoosh slower than Beastie did.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.