Contracted form of the Japanese loanword "sukoshi," (adv,n) small quantity; little; few; something; 2) little while 3) short distance.

People from Hawaii seem to love this word. The "u" and "i" may be minimally audible in practice when spoken correctly, and the contracted form is what non-Japanese tend to hear. Sukoshi = skoshi or skosh.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods