 |  |  | | | Word of the Day for Saturday, January 4, 2014 skosh \skohsh\, noun: Slang. a bit; a jot: We need just a skosh more room. The pack's momentum had nailed me facedown cause a pebble under my toe had rolled, but it wouldn't've if I'd been a skosh more coherent.
-- John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black, 2002 Except there's just the barest crook to his version, showing he knows just a skosh more than she did. And probably wishes he didn't.
-- Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, 1962 Skosh entered English in the 1950s from the Japanese term sukoshi which meant "a little bit." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help |
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