diddly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈdɪdəli/ (UK)

Definition of diddly

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, informal, uncountable)A small amount of no worth.
    “They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don't say diddly. They don't talk. Not a word, like they're deaf and dumb.”
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noun

  1. (countable, informal, uncountable)A small amount of no worth.
    “They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don't say diddly. They don't talk. Not a word, like they're deaf and dumb.”
  2. (childish, slang, sometimes)penis
    “"My child is going to be taught all about sex as soon as he can understand. Mother-in-law is always clucking to him about his diddly. No, no, I say, you must call it penis."”

intj

  1. A written representation of a trill sound.
    “On the handcar mornings or evenings he would amuse his companion by pumping away to a triple-tongued pattern, which he would hum emphatically as they rolled along: "dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee dee-dum dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee..."”
    “...When combined with the following picked note, this gives a rhythmic 'diddly-dum' effect.”
    “It's easy enough for him to go “diddly-diddly-diddly-dum” a thousand and one times, whereas with me it's “diddly-diddly-diddly- omigodIcan'tbreathe-dum!”)”

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Etymology

Short for diddly-squat.

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