出典:Wiktionary
Likely based on a variant of smiddum, smeddum (“fine powder”), influenced by Scots smitch (“stain, speck, small amount, trace”).[1][2] Alternatively, from *smitching, a diminutive of smitch. Compare Northumbrian dialectal English smiddum (“small particle of lead ore; smitham”).[3] Scots smitch, also smutch, likely derives from English dialectal smit, smite (“bit, small portion”), 古期英語 smytta, smitta (“a smear, blot, spot, mark, pollution”), related to 古期英語 smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge”); or possibly from *smuddian, *smyddan, *smydecian, *smydegian (“to soil, stain, taint, blacken”), perhaps related to Middle Low German smudde (“dirt, filth”), smudden (“to soil, make dirty”), Middle High German smotzen (“to be dirty”). If so, then cognate with smudge.
Alternate etymology connects smidgeon with Scottish Gaelic smidin (“small syllable”), though this is highly improbable considering the implied semantic shift that would have to have occurred.
smidgen (複数形 smidgens)
Some cookbooks and manufacturers of kitchen measurement sets have attempted to define a smidgen for recipes. Anything between 1⁄25 and 1⁄48 of a teaspoon may be found, 1⁄32 being perhaps the most commonly used. Other commonly used measures for small amounts include tad, dash, pinch, and drop. There seems to be some consensus of tad being the largest in this set and a smidgen being larger than a drop but smaller than a pinch.
テグー
tejus
プーク
ごみ
くび
a wrinkle