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• n  a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

• He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric .
• He had a smidgin of good news.
• It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four.

• shred
• scintilla
• whit
• iota
• tittle
• smidgen
• smidgeon
• smidge

Quotes

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• Rhodri Morgan in BBC News
  Mr Morgan said the "competitive model" seemed to regard people like tenants, patients, pupils and parents as "some sort of shopaholic, always on the lookout for new ways of elbowing their way to some new smidgin of fresh personal advantage".
• Mike Hussey in The Australian
  I was probably a smidgin late on it. That's the way it goes unfortunately. I wish I was a bit later and missed it,Hussey said.