Definitions
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- n. A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in British and Australian English.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lots of collaborative projects and other peoples' stuff to get back to, plus a skerrick more of Other Writing Project.
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In writing news, I have editing notes on ten short stories but not a single skerrick for any of my own fiction.
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Again, whilst I have not one skerrick of confidance in any of the Congress persons in their Insane asylum, I do not believe they wish to commit suicide either.
Oil, Israel, Iran, America and the High Cost of a Single War-Like Remark
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First, you get a possible problem - preferably with some skerrick of truth.
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So that you get just a skerrick of anticipation, I am putting it behind a cut Read more...
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This went on piece after piece; I wasn't sure what this meant until she reached the end, when she picked up her plate and licked off every last skerrick of sauce.
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The only work I had time to do was a skerrick of novel and yet another fix for that Continuum Con report.
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The songs that access every little skerrick of pain, beauty and angst they can in my soul, that speak of love in its every facet.
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Don't click the links above if you're sensitive to the sight of dead animals there's nary a skerrick of blood though.
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Xie's barrister Graham Turnbull SC told the last hearing the Crown case was weak as there was "not a skerrick" of motive presented as to why his client would have committed the murders.
knitandpurl commented on the word skerrick
"Finally they retired and when Sumper left the field, I scraped his plate, the last skerrick of cheese sauce as well."
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey, p 65 of the Knopf hardcover edition
June 5, 2012
lampbane commented on the word skerrick
A very small amount.
October 5, 2008