The word 'smidgen' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a very small amount of something. For example: "I only need a smidgen of sugar to sweeten my coffee."
Their village, this smidgen of relative calm a mere line-cast away from the thrash on Mumbai's main streets, sits on prime real estate.
The only thing wrong with Streep's performance is that, when she smiles, she is a smidgen too pretty.
Because, of course, were they to look at just a smidgen of the statistical evidence (often cited in the articles beneath which they are commenting) they would realise that these issues – harassment, sexual abuse, workplace discrimination – are very gendered indeed.
Alex Bluett, friskafood.com This tart is worth every smidgen of the high percentage cocoa solids that go into it.
And if they do not, then too bad for the left: after all, it has complained often enough that cohabitation does French democracy and French government no favours.But there is a second reason why the thoughtful may temper their praise for the May Day demonstrators with a smidgen of doubt.
Whether it becomes law is another matter, with even Lord Strathclyde, Conservative leader of the House of Lords, putting its chances at 50-50 .To 50-50 .Toe Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader, the change would bring a "smidgen" more democracy to British lifans
What to do, then, when a central banker behaves with such wilful disregard for ethical standards that he ought to resign, but shows no sign of doing so, or even of feeling a smidgen of embarrassment?That is the dilemma facing Italy.
Those showed significant changes in his skin elasticity, but the result added just one data point to earlier, anecdotal reports.Results published this week add a smidgen of intriguing data to the debate.
In response Labour frontbenchers talk of the "worst kind of gerrymandering" and of abuses to rival rotten boroughs.Such outrage involves a smidgen of principle.
In 1997, a smidgen over 68% of people in their 20s voted, a respectable figure compared with many other countries, but well below the total turnout in South Korea of more than 80%.
The offering is at the lower end of market expectations, amounting to $8.9 billion in stock.Consumer prices in China rose by 5.3% last month, down a smidgen from March but still above the government's inflation target.
