"soupçon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "soupçon"
      },
      "expansion": "French soupçon",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suspection"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of suspection",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French soupçon. Doublet of suspection.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soupçons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soupcon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soupçon (plural soupçons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Add a soupçon of red pepper.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "coffee with a soupçon of cognac",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "No one is so depraved that a soupçon of goodness cannot be found in them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "Henrietta, her niece, looked much prettier than she really was; she had good dark eyes, to which a soupçon of rouge, put on with such skill that few suspected it, gave all possible brightness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, “The Stanhopes at Home”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 259:",
          "text": "Eleanor returned the pressure of the other's hand with an infinitesimal soupçon of a squeeze.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Baroness Orczy, chapter VI, in I Will Repay, London: Greening & Co, page 88:",
          "text": "[…] and as he spoke, there was just a soupçon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 1, page 92:",
          "text": "Anthony was playing with an ancient tennis-ball, and he bounced it carefully on the floor several times before he answered with a soupçon of acidity:\n“You're a little idiot, Geraldine.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small amount; a hint; a trace, slight idea; an inkling."
      ],
      "id": "en-soupçon-en-noun-enUmNJcX",
      "links": [
        [
          "hint",
          "hint"
        ],
        [
          "trace",
          "trace"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "modicum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A suspicion; a suggestion."
      ],
      "id": "en-soupçon-en-noun-cc20aKXW",
      "links": [
        [
          "suspicion",
          "suspicion"
        ],
        [
          "suggestion",
          "suggestion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A suspicion; a suggestion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpˈsɒn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpˈsɒ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-soupçon.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soupçon"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms spelled with Ç",
    "English terms spelled with ◌̧",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒn",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒn/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "soupçon"
      },
      "expansion": "French soupçon",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suspection"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of suspection",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French soupçon. Doublet of suspection.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soupçons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soupcon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soupçon (plural soupçons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Add a soupçon of red pepper.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "coffee with a soupçon of cognac",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "No one is so depraved that a soupçon of goodness cannot be found in them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "Henrietta, her niece, looked much prettier than she really was; she had good dark eyes, to which a soupçon of rouge, put on with such skill that few suspected it, gave all possible brightness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, “The Stanhopes at Home”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 259:",
          "text": "Eleanor returned the pressure of the other's hand with an infinitesimal soupçon of a squeeze.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Baroness Orczy, chapter VI, in I Will Repay, London: Greening & Co, page 88:",
          "text": "[…] and as he spoke, there was just a soupçon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 1, page 92:",
          "text": "Anthony was playing with an ancient tennis-ball, and he bounced it carefully on the floor several times before he answered with a soupçon of acidity:\n“You're a little idiot, Geraldine.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small amount; a hint; a trace, slight idea; an inkling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hint",
          "hint"
        ],
        [
          "trace",
          "trace"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "modicum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A suspicion; a suggestion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suspicion",
          "suspicion"
        ],
        [
          "suggestion",
          "suggestion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A suspicion; a suggestion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpˈsɒn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpˈsɒ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-soupçon.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-soup%C3%A7on.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soupçon"
}