" skosh "

 [ "skosh" ]

1: A small amount of something.

  * e.g.,  ... "I'll have just a skosh of that pie..." 

 [ "skosh" ]

2: From the Japanese word "sukoshi," pronounced skosh. That also means a little bit.

 [ "skosh" ]

1: The very smallest unit of fake measure, smaller than both the smidge and the tad.

  * e.g.,  ... Hey, Korey, you think you could crack the window a skosh? It smells like ass and country music in here. 

 [ "skosh" ]

1: Can mean "a little bit", but can also mean sketchy or marginal.

  * e.g.,  ... Can I have a skosh of cheese? 

 [ "skosh" ]

1: A versatile word that is useful in any situation, regardless of context.

  * e.g.,  ... "Son of a skosh! I just tripped over that large rock and really skoshed myself up! Ah well, I'll feel a skosh better in the skoshin morning after a couple skoshes of tequila. Then, I'll really feel skoshtastic. Skosh." 

 [ "skosh" ]

2: Can be used in its formal tense as "a little bit of something" or as a healthy replacement for any obscene expletive contrived by the human race.

 [ "skosh" ]

1: (verb, transitive) to move something slightly. From the Japanese adjective sukoshi = a small amount, a bit, slightly.

  * e.g.,  ... "Skosh that over just a bit." 

 [ "skosh" ]

2: (I first heard it used as a verb in 2000 by an American native-English speaker who hadn't studied Japanese, but had just hung around with Japanese exchange students in the US.)

  * e.g.,  ... "The frame on the wall was crooked so I skoshed it." 

 [ "skosh" ]

1: sweet. rad. awesome. fabulous. used to describe anything awesome.

  * e.g.,  ... dude, your shirt is fucking skosh. 

 [ "skosh" ]

1: The action of skanking and moshing mixed in to create the ultimate social phenomenon at a ska punk show. Closely related to choreomania.

  * e.g.,  ... "Hold my glasses, I'm gonna skosh to Catch 22" 

 [ "Skosh" ]

1: One thumb width

  * e.g.,  ... Move your hand one skosh over on the barbell. 

 [ "skoshe" ]

1: a small amount

  * e.g.,  ... just a skoshe please 

 [ "Skosh" ]

1: a little bit.

  * e.g.,  ... It was raining a skosh.