smidgin

smidgin (plural smidgins)

1. Alternative spelling of smidgen.
   • 1952 September 19, John Steinbeck, chapter 23, in East of Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, book 3, section 3, page 289:

     In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?

   • 1962 July, John Steinbeck, “Part 1”, in Travels with Charley in Search of America, London: William Heinemann, published 1962, →OCLC, page 106:

     Lucille wore one of those little smidgins of hats held on by inturned combs.