smidgen

Anlam (İngilizce)

A very small quantity or amount.

Kavramlar

bir nebze

bir parça

Eş anlamlılar

smidgin

smidge

iota

scintilla

shred

smidgeon

tad

tittle

whit

trace

trifle

dash

💨

soupcon

speck

spot

bit

grain

tiny bit

modicum

particle

particulate

pinch

tiny amount

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ˈsmɪd͡ʒən/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

Likely based on a variant of smiddum, smeddum (“fine powder”), influenced by Scots smitch (“stain, speck, small amount, trace”). Alternatively, from *smitching, a diminutive of smitch. Compare Northumbrian dialectal English smiddum (“small particle of lead ore; smitham”). Scots smitch, also smutch, likely derives from English dialectal smit, smite (“bit, small portion”), Old English smytta, smitta (“a smear, blot, spot, mark, pollution”), related to Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge”); or possibly from *smuddian, *smyddan, *smydecian, *smydegian (“to soil, stain, taint, blacken”), perhaps related to Middle Low German smudde (“dirt, filth”), smudden (“to soil, make dirty”), Middle High German smotzen (“to be dirty”). If so, then cognate with smudge.
Alternate etymology connects smidgeon with Scottish Gaelic smidin (“small syllable”), though this is highly improbable considering the implied semantic shift that would have to have occurred.