Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A small amount; a bit: "This is a well-plotted, economical thriller. Although the beginning is a skosh slow, [the author] picks up the pace” ( T. Jefferson Parker).
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Japanese 少し, すこし (sukoshi, "a little"). (Wiktionary)
- Japanese sukoshi. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Larry, thanks for "skosh" -- it's a fun word indeed!”
“Now this pool, it seems, was unknown to the Yips because it was surrounded by thick bushes and was not near to any dwelling, and it proved to be an enchanted pool, for the frog grew very fast and very big, feeding on the magic skosh which is found nowhere else on earth except in that one pool.”
“Yips because it was surrounded by thick bushes and was not near to any dwelling, and it proved to be an enchanted pool, for the frog grew very fast and very big, feeding on the magic skosh which is found nowhere else on earth except in that one pool.”
“At first it was increased only a "skosh," make that a doubling of the tax rate from a nickel to ten cents.”
“BTW, "skosh" is usually spelled with a "K", easier to see the hard consonant.”
“(By the way, the word "skosh" was borrowed from Japan, from whom we have borrowed much more than merely words in recent years; it is, after all, a close second to China in holding U.S.”
“Even with a skosh more legroom, it remains close to useless for people.”
“Second, anyone who eats Cheezy-poofs of any kind eats them for this bizarre, simulated, "advanced food-like" product, not for the corn puff that might actually bring a skosh of nutrition to what is essentially an empty calorie.”
“Bonne annee to all -- may 2010 be joy-filled and, like skosh, a lot of fun, too!”
“Out of almost 2.9 million ballots cast, McCain's edge was 3,632 -- a skosh above one-tenth of one percent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skosh’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Thunderfoot's Words
lugubrious, salacious, vituperative, foist, foment, embolism, stygian, mellifluous, bildungsroman, shirk, crone, elide and 173 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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le mot juste
minikin, skosh, fulgent, nimiety, flense, peridot, camorra, dottle, alizarin, chunder, cree, umami and 10 more...
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favoritest words
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Need to start using
Words that I would like to use more often
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vocab
propinquity, accismus, anodyne, crepuscular, vulpine, skosh, machination, monophthong, diphthong, triphthong
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roush's Words
galore, razzmatazz, pooh-pooh, hoi polloi, skosh, agnomen, agnomen
Tweets
Looking for tweets for skosh.

bilby Deserves to be a compact car name. Sep 27, 2011
joanne hence, pronounced with a long O. Feb 3, 2009
oroboros See nitnoy. Oct 4, 2007
stpeter The source seems to be the Japanese word sukoshi. Dec 29, 2006