smidgen

noun

smid·gen ˈsmi-jən

variants or less commonly smidgeon or smidgin or smidge

ˈsmij

Synonyms of smidgen next

: a small amount : bit

a smidgen of salt

a smidgen of common sense

Example Sentences

I'll just have a smidgen of ice cream. the maid cleaned the house until there wasn't even a smidgen of dust left

Recent Examples on the Web No offense to the Metroplex, but the view for UT and OU — white sandy beaches and a crystal-clear Gulf of Mexico — will be a smidgen better this spring. —

Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2023 What’s missing from all this reexamination and soul-searching is a fundamental fact: There is no evidence — not a smidgen — for the claim that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in China or anywhere else, or that the China lab ever had the virus in its inventory. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021 As mentioned, Wolfe-Simon still found a smidgen of phosphorus in the bacteria by the end of the experiment. —

Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2010 The first smidgen of travel didn't seem to have any effect, followed by every brake pad latching onto its drum with haste. —

Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023 So when the coronavirus started its sweep across the United States three years ago, Sklansky couldn’t help but feel a smidgen of hope. —

Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023 That earned a smidgen of media coverage - but things really took off when a TikTok user in San Francisco picked the slim volume up at her local bookstore and started posting videos about her attempts to solve it. —

Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022 Those would still account for only a smidgen of the hundreds of millions of tons the I.E.A. and others say would be needed to create a market in which green hydrogen was cheap enough that steel and concrete makers were convinced to convert their operations. —

Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023 Well, maybe a smidgen. —

Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022 See More

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