SOUPCON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soupcon mean? 

• SOUPCON (noun)
  The noun SOUPCON has 1 sense:

1. a slight but appreciable amount

  Familiarity information: SOUPCON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUPCON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight but appreciable amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

hint; jot; mite; pinch; soupcon; speck; tinge; touch

Context example:

this dish could use a touch of garlic

Hypernyms ("soupcon" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soupcon"):

snuff (a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time)

 Context examples 

They crimped and curled her hair, they polished her neck and arms with some fragrant powder, touched her lips with coralline salve to make them redder, and Hortense would have added 'a soupcon of rouge', if Meg had not rebelled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)