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View synonyms for soupçon

soupçon

[ soop-sawn, soop-sawn ]

noun

  1. a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.

    Synonyms: vestige, hint, bit, dash



soupçon

/ supsɔ̃ /

noun

  1. a slight amount; dash
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of soupçon1

First recorded in 1760–70; from French: literally, “a suspicion,” Middle French sospeçon, from Late Latin suspectiōn- (stem of suspectiō ), for Latin suspīciō suspicion
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Word History and Origins

Origin of soupçon1

C18: from French, ultimately from Latin suspicio suspicion
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Example Sentences

After all, without Mr. Marciony we might still be eating our ice cream with a soupcon of other people's spit.

Up to now, the posture has been to feel a soupcon of empathy or something for the man because well, at least he was in love.

And the soupcon of blue on the hat and in the earrings of miladi lights up the whole personality.

So there seemed to be a soupcon of treachery in his subtleties and his disclosures.

That fat woman he's bowing to is Viscountess Sedley, a porcine empress, widow of three, with a soupcon of bigamy to flavour them.

This, with the soupcon of a demi-shrug; "You will not suffer much" being implied.

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