smidgen

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: smid=gen

OXFORD DICTIONARY

smidgen, n. (also smidgin) colloq. a small bit or amount.

Etymology

perh. f. smitch in the same sense: cf. dial. smitch wood-smoke

THESAURUS

smidgen

ace, atom, bit, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, ray, scruple, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit