Please don't be offended, for some senses of different ways to spell this are slang for private parts.
When a tailor says "I can take it in a 'skootch'", how is the word 'skootch' properly spelled. Is it Yiddish or not? Has anyone else ever heard this term?
holly
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this is all I could find
Main Entry: scooch
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a small amount or distance
Example: Move it a scooch to the left.
Usage: slang
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scooch
Rosie
Curiously there is a Japanese word skosh, but it is pronounced differently that means the same thing.
Main Entry: skosh
Pronunciation: \ËskÅsh\
Function: noun
Etymology: Japanese sukoshi
Date: 1952
: a small amount : bit, smidgen —used adverbially with a <just a skosh bit shook — Josiah Bunting>
It was used in print in Jeans commercials which said, it has a skosh more room.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sko1.htm