DIDDLY Definition & Meaning

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diddly

[ did-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Slang.

plural diddlies

a thing of little or no value; naught:
Your excuses aren't worth diddly to me.
a flaw; malfunction.

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Origin of diddly¹

Perhaps euphemistic shortening of diddlyshit

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“Of course he won the video game. But he doesn’t know diddly about the Dewey decimal system. That’s why I beat him in the book reshelving game.”

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“That wonderful résumé that you have means diddly squat when that whistle blows in CONCACAF. It’s the great equalizer.”

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“He wasn’t doing anything — squat, diddly,” Wren Williams said in an interview about his primary opponent.

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It’s even got a name: The diddly squat.

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Depending on where you live, an iPhone 12 might do diddly for your downloads.

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