I have this hunch that the word came about during WWII - the Japanese word sukoshi (pronounced just about like scosh), means "little" or "small amount" - my thinking is that the GI's picked it up from there and it wormed it's way into American english.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 5:31:44 AM, you wrote: ERNR> Shel Belinkoff wrote: >>A "scosh" is a term that means "just a little," but by no definite amount. >> >> >> ERNR> How does it relate to a "smidgen"? More, less or about the same? ERNR> ERNR ERNR> genuinely interested
