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scintilla

(n): a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
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5 days ago Asativum said:

You know, I'd think a scintilla is smaller than a soupçon, just from the phrase"not a scintilla of evidence.

5 days ago gangerh said:

But smaller than a soupspoon.

5 days ago johnmperry said:

I always envisage a scintilla as being hard and sharp, like a glass splinter, whereas a soupcon sounds much more liquid somehow.

5 days ago johnmperry said:

Probably bigger than a soupcon

2 months ago bilby said:

Italian - spark.

8 months ago reesetee said:

Also the name of an imaginary ultra-compact car. ;->

8 months ago sionnach said: more than an iota, less than a smidgen

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