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tadnoun a very small amountthere's more than just a tad of hyperbole in the critics' praise for the promising young pianist ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whitatom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrapdash, drop, pinchpart, portion, sectionbite, nibble, tastehandful, scattering, smatter, smatteringdose, shotchip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splintertatterclipping, paring, shaving drop in the bucket abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealthvolumebonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surpluschunk, hunk, lump, slab a male person who has not yet reached adulthoodgrandfather never tires of telling us about the days when he was just a tad boy, boychick(or boychik), boyo(Irish), callant(chiefly Scottish), lad, laddie, nipper, shaveling, shaver, sonny, stripling, youth adolescent, juvenile, kid, kiddie(also kiddy), kiddo, minor, moppet, teenager, tween, youngling, youngsterbrat, gamin, guttersnipe, hobbledehoy, imp, squirt, urchin, whippersnapperschoolboytoddler, tot, tyke(also tike)mama's boy, mollycoddle ca. 1877 |