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- noun Alternative form of
diddly-squat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small worthless amount
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Examples
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This was a mistake, of course, because I know diddlysquat about cartography and plate tectonics and had probably put a continent in the way of some critical Gulf Streamlike current, thus making the whole planet uninhabitable by human beings.
The Map Thing « 2009
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Americans know diddlysquat about British football teams, for one thing.
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This achieves the important public policy goal of … diddlysquat.
Andrew Coyne 2010
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When you build a theory of voter psychology on a single data point, you produce a theory that is worth precisely diddlysquat.
Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues 2009
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I thought I understood racism, but I didn't know diddlysquat.
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The Delaware State Police do absolutely jack diddlysquat, nothing.
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When people are angry at the current leadership there is a temptation to do nothing.. especially if they want impeachment and congress is prepared to give them diddlysquat.
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This year as we all know that all changed because history and tradition don't mean diddlysquat in
[sic] 2009
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This year as we all know that all changed because history and tradition don't mean diddlysquat in
[sic] 2009
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In the period spoken of (1920s/1930s) the combined economic power of SLC and Phoenix was diddlysquat.
Autoblog Green 2009
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