skosh

a small amount of something.

from the j-panese word “sukoshi,” pr-nounced skosh. that also means a little bit.
“i’ll have just a skosh of that pie…”
a little bit.
it was raining a skosh.
the very smallest unit of fake measure, smaller than both the smidge and the tad.
hey, korey, you think you could crack the window a skosh? it smells like -ss and country music in here.
can mean “a little bit”, but can also mean sketchy or marginal.
can i have a skosh of cheese?

the weather is kind of skosh.
(verb, transitive) to move something slightly. from the j-panese adjective sukoshi = a small amount, a bit, slightly.
(i first heard it used as a verb in 2000 by an american native-english speaker who hadn’t studied j-panese, but had just hung around with j-panese exchange students in the us.)
“skosh that over just a bit.”
“the frame on the wall was crooked so i skoshed it.”
the action of sk-nking and moshing mixed in to create the ultimate social phenomenon at a ska punk show. closely related to ch-r-omania.
“hold my gl-sses, i’m gonna skosh to catch 22”
a versatile word that is useful in any situation, regardless of context.

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.
“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.”