• Peppycito
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      10 months ago

      A ‘smattering’ is a small amount of something. You’ve described a huge small amount.

        • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Ah “skosh”…I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it in writing, but my first mentor at my first career job used it all the time. Every amount of distance under a foot (in a structural discipline) was a skosh of some sort.

          Just a bit of a skosh, a slight skosh…a good healthy skosh…

          Brought back a good memory there.

          • hakase@lemm.ee
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            10 months ago

            Fun fact, “skosh” comes from the occupation of Japan after WWII, from Japanese “sukoshi” ‘a little bit’.