Meaning of Smidgen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.
   informal
2. 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.
   broadly, informal

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Examples

“Move⟳ it a smidgen to the right.”

“Would you like⟳ some more cake? ―I’ll have⟳ a smidgen.”

“Unkle Will says when he tould her to mind⟳ the siggering in the Crock,—she run⟳ to the Spence for a smidgen of skalded cream.”

“It's jest a meracle we wa'n't all blowed to smidgens, the hull b'ilin' lot of us.”

“He didn't look⟳ the least smidgen like⟳ our Mart Mayo, but if they was both on the track in a lyin match⟳, whilst he might not beat⟳ old Mart, I am satisfied he would make⟳ the track devilish dusty for a few heats anyhow.”

“I could listen⟳ to forty million men like⟳ this candidate expound his views and it wouldn't alter me one smidgen in the belief that Carson Dwight has acted only as a true Christian would.”

“Aw right, you go right in and tell⟳ 'em the truth, all of it, every last⟳ smidgen.”

“['][T]he girl's a pill like⟳ Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.' / 'No will of her own⟳?' / 'Not a smidgeon.[']”

“In fifty years, did you ever have⟳ a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?”

“Lucille wore one of those little smidgins of hats held on by inturned combs.”

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