Meanings
nounsmidgeon (plural smidgeons)
plural smidgeons
- alternativeAlternative spelling of smidgen.
['][T]he girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.' / 'No will of her own?' / 'Not a smidgeon.[']
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, page 37
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Broader
small indefinite quantitysmall indefinite amount
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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