Etymology

skosh

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Today it means: A tiny amount; a little bit. Full definition →

Japanese 少し
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from少し“a little bit”
  2. English todayskosh

Borrowed from Japanese 少し (sukoshi, “a little bit”), originally US armed forces slang.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.