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Etymology of Smidge

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A Fort Worth, Texas, hospital worker says she’s forever telling her patients to move over on the gurney just a smidge or a tidge, and wants to know if they’re real words. Smidge is a shortening of smidgeon; tidge is likely a mix of tad and smidge. She also wonders about the shimmy, meaning “to move,” which comes from the name of a dance in the early 1900’s. This is part of a complete episode.

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