What is Skosh?
1.
A small amount of something.
From the Japanese word "sukoshi," pronounced skosh. That also means a little bit.
"I'll have just a skosh of that pie..."
2.
a little bit.
It was raining a skosh.
3.
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.
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4.
The very smallest unit of fake measure, smaller than both the
Hey, Korey, you think you could crack the window a skosh? It smells like ass and country music in here.
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5.
(verb, transitive) to move something slightly. From the Japanese 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 Japanese, but had just hung around with Japanese exchange students in the US.)
"Skosh that over just a bit."
"The frame on the wall was crooked so I skoshed it."
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6.
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."
7.
sweet. rad. awesome. fabulous. used to describe anything awesome.
dude, your shirt is fucking skosh.
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