variants
or less commonly smidgeon
or smidgin
or smidge
: a small amount : bit
a smidgen of salt
a smidgen of common sense
Examples of smidgen in a Sentence
I'll just have a smidgen of ice cream.
the maid cleaned the house until there wasn't even a smidgen of dust left
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In the mouth this is elegant and creamy, layered, well structured, complex with toffee flavors and even a smidgen of Amarone and pine.
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Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The extra coverage is advantageous for landscapes, architecture, and other scenes that are just a smidgen too vast for a typical all-in-one zoom to capture in frame.
—Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2025
While a smidgen of the magic of March might be missing this week, the business of college hoops is totally fine:
The plethora of remaining powerhouses means more fans, not fewer, will watch the upcoming rounds of games.
—Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
What was genuinely surprising, though, was that, in addition to his usual target of California, the emergency order also singled out the Northeast — a region that’s a smidgen short of solidly blue but one that usually avoids Trump vitriol.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
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Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The extra coverage is advantageous for landscapes, architecture, and other scenes that are just a smidgen too vast for a typical all-in-one zoom to capture in frame.
—Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2025
While a smidgen of the magic of March might be missing this week, the business of college hoops is totally fine:
The plethora of remaining powerhouses means more fans, not fewer, will watch the upcoming rounds of games.
—Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
What was genuinely surprising, though, was that, in addition to his usual target of California, the emergency order also singled out the Northeast — a region that’s a smidgen short of solidly blue but one that usually avoids Trump vitriol.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for smidgen
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“Smidgen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smidgen. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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