Noun

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(Scottish) co-op (short for "association" store).

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Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh ," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.

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An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.

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Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.

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In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh [.]”

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, title=Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography , last=Irwin , first=Will , publisher=The Century Company , pageurl=http://archive.org/stream/herberthooverare007945mbp/herberthooverare007945mbp_djvu.txt , page=50 , year=1928 }}

In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh " short for Socialist.

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This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh'.” The teeth-baring ' sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.

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He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh ." His social security number.

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, year=2009 , author=Robert Lockwood, Jr. , title=Political Ducks: Lucky, Lame, and Dead , publisher=Xlibris , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HwCmns2lanUC&pg=PA241&dq=sosh+number&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DSA2UZubDOiq0AGHl4H4Ag&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCDhG

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Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department [....] “Sosh ,” as the academic department was called [....]

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In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh ’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election [....]

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Noun

(es)

A tiny amount; a little bit; tad; smidgen; jot.

He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.

* 2002 , Jan Hornung, Kiss the Sky: Helicopter Tales (ISBN 0595228968), page 62

“Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.

* 2003 , John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black , (ISBN: 0765342227), page 216:

Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.

* 2005 , Bill Hylton, Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery (ISBN 144031635X):

I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder;

* 2009 , Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women: A Novel (ISBN 1416594981), page 192:

“More?” “Just a skosh',” Liz says. “A ' skosh ?” Fran says. “Japanese for 'a little,'” Liz says. “Sukoshi.”