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- noun Alternative form of
soupçon .
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ps. the word of the day is "soupcon" - use it in a sentence today and people will think you are twenty times smarter.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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ps. the word of the day is "soupcon" - use it in a sentence today and people will think you are twenty times smarter.
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Please don't use the word "soupcon" in the same paragraph with "body parts".
The I Need a Shower Now and a Cocktail Immediately After Trophy Editorial Anonymous 2008
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Please don't use the word "soupcon" in the same paragraph with "body parts".
Archive 2008-08-01 Editorial Anonymous 2008
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Black Narcissus is a fairy tale crossed with sexy nuns locked in feverish desire with a soupcon about the fading British empire.
Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011
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Andy Rooney was America's bemused uncle, spouting homespun wisdom weekly at the end of "60 Minutes," a soupcon of topical relief after the news magazine's harder-hitting segments.
Curmudgeonly Commentator Andy Rooney Dies Stephen Miller 2011
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That's why we cannot afford a single moment of complacency, a second of self-indulgence, a soupcon of short-sightedness, or a waking moment of egotism.
Carl Pope: Game Time Carl Pope 2011
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Of course, this is but a soupcon of the bonkersauce, compared to the tureen of same that Tancredo has amassed in his political lifetime.
Tom Tancredo's Greatest Hits (VIDEO) Jason Linkins 2010
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas BUTTERNUT SQUASH SEED With a haunting and hard-to place taste—hints of apricot, chanterelles, a soupcon of peanut butter—a finishing swirl of this domestic oil can be just the thing to make vegetables like roasted cauliflower and Brussels sprouts a little more provocative.
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut Oil Sara Dickerman 2011
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Black Narcissus is a fairy tale crossed with sexy nuns locked in feverish desire with a soupcon about the fading British empire.
Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011
johnmperry commented on the word soupcon
French = suspicion (should be soupçon)
an eentsy-weentsy amount, but bigger than a nuage
June 21, 2008