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Sliver vs Skerrick - What's the difference?

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Sliver is a related term of skerrick.


As nouns the difference between sliver and skerrick

is that sliver is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter while skerrick is (british) a very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in british and australian english.

As a verb sliver

is to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

sliver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
  • *:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
  • A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  • (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    • Synonyms

    * (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
    • to sliver wood
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • They'll sliver thee like a turnip.

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    skerrick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in British and Australian English.
  • * 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven , National Geographic (April 2007), 74,
    • "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".