Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modicum \Mod"i*cum\, n. [L., fr. modicus moderate, fr. modus.
   See {Mode}.]
   A little; a small quantity; a measured simply. ``Modicums of
   wit.'' --Shak.

         Her usual modicum of beer and punch.     --Thackeray.

Source : WordNet®

modicum
     n : a small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects
         a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack