Has anyone here ever heard of a word that sounds like skotch?
(with a long o as in mote)
Generally used in sentences to mean just a touch…
Something like this.
“Would you like a little milk for your coffee?”
“Just a ‘skotch’”
I ask because I haven’t been able to find it in a couple of dictionaries I checked out, only two of my friends had vaguely heard of it; and interestingly, it sounds similar to a Japanese word that I will probably transliterate wrongly as tsukoshi which has the same approximate meaning.
I was wondering if this was another Nihon word working its way into the English language, or if in fact the similarity was pure coincidence.
Bam! I love how Straight Dope denizens can just nail these questions in no time flat. Within five minutes I have two responses with same American Heritage ref. I’ll have to use it when looking up slang words in the future (of course, I had no clue how to spell it…)
Thanks!