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• n  a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

• I guess you could give Jones a smidgen of credit for finally coming clean.
• And second, a crash is still about 3 billion to 5 billion years away, by which time our sun will have transformed into a red giant and turned the Earth into a smidgen of charred .
• The 29-year-old speaks crisp British English, fluent Malay, and a smidgen of Punjabi.

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

News & Articles

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• N.C. House proposals will wreck our schools
  The N.C. House of Representatives revealed the education portion of its budget bill this week, and it's a sobering document that continues the current legislative session's unprecedented attack on public education in North Carolina. Remember, though, that the N.C. House actually leans a smidgen less to the far-right than the N.C. Senate - in other words, these ideas could get even worse by the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
• How Dreadful: Ciara Served With Lawsuit Live On Stage During Concert
  As Ciara struggles to regain a smidgen of the success she had waaaay back in 2005, there is one group we know she can’t afford to piss off: the gays. More »
  June 11, 2013 - Gossip on This!
• Jimmer Fredette is as Productive as Ray Allen: An Inconvenient Truth
  Jimmer Fredette was mentioned yesterday by Eamonn Brennan at ESPN.com as having the potential to become one of the best NBA players to ever emerge from the Mountain West Conference.  Any smidgen of praise for the former BYU star triggers a nasty torrent of misinformed comments from the Jimmer haters. As a result, I just wanted to remind all of the Jimmer haters of one inconvenient truth: Jimmer ...
  June 11, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we're down on the dumps,Obama said. "And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this...
• Craig James in Sydney Morning Herald
  CommSec economist Craig James said the current level of interest rates was now only "a smidgen away" from average levels. "There will be at least another rate hike but the timing is an open-ended question and, while they didn't want to delay...
• Fred Taylor in USA Today
  If we don't beat them, we've got a harder battle to fight,Taylor said. "If we beat them, it becomes just a smidgen easier in a sense. But then again, the AFC playoff race is so narrow right now. We can't slip up."