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- noun Alternative spelling of
smidgen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
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Examples
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They ate every "smidgin '" of the fish at dinner, and their larder looked desperately bare.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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The people of Nebraska, Texas, et al, gain some smidgin of relief or crumb of the largesse.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » And You Thought I Was Cynical and Paranoid? 2009
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Unless your car charger is plugged into your own private wind farm, the current you draw might be that least smidgin required to keep that last coal fired power plant on line – so the electricity you use causes carbon dioxide as if you were wired direct to a coal fired plant.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sucking the Oxygen Out of the Environmental Movement 2009
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I reckon when all is said and done Siege will end up close to 115k, a smidgin longer.
Drive by posting ... karenmiller 2009
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It'll end up about the same length or a smidgin longer than Prodigal Mage.
Reluctant Mage -- is done! karenmiller 2009
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The people of Nebraska, Texas, et al, gain some smidgin of relief or crumb of the largesse.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » And You Thought I Was Cynical and Paranoid? 2009
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He is such a talented player, maybe even blessed with a smidgin of genius.
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Usually DoD gets the lions share of attention, and there's a smidgin of witch-hunting ... er .. house-cleaning ... at State.
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Beyond that smidgin of sympathy one has for stranded travellers it's a non-event.
UK snow chaos: some make it home, but thousands still stranded 2010
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It's fun, it's heroic, I think it was well-plotted not like the mess of Star Wars, and unlike Star Wars, it at least tries to project a believable future based on at least a smidgin of real science.
freakin' AWESOME! mikandra 2009
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