Crossword clues for soupcon
soupcon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soupcon \Soup`[,c]on"\, n. [F.] A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soup[,c]on of brandy; a soup[,c]on of coquetry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a slight trace or suggestion," 1766, from French soupçon "suspicion," from Old French sospeçon "suspicion, worry, anxiety" (12c.), from Late Latin suspectionem (see suspicion).
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of soupçon English)
n. 1 A very small amount; a hint; a trace. 2 (context dated English) A suspicion; a suggestion.
WordNet
Usage examples of "soupcon".
The humidity was uncommonly low for the Keys, and thanks in part to the protection of the thick flame-red canopy of poinciana that arched over the compound, we were just hot enough that the gentle steady breezes were welcome as much for their coolness as for the cycling symphony of pleasing scents they carried: sea salt, frangipani, fried conch fritters, Erin's rose garden, iodine, coral dust, lime, sunblock, five different kinds of coffee, the indescribable but distinctive bouquet of a Cuban sandwich being pressed somewhere upwind, excellent marijuana in a wooden pipe, and just a soupcon of distant moped exhaust.
I opened my nostrils, and even over the open-hood smells right in my face, I was able to detect an evocative soupcon of diesel in the breeze.
She'd thrown the cat among the pigeons well and truly, with that dose of Keppler, seasoned with a smidgin of Newton and soupcon of Laplace.