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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

  • 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

  • Americans know diddlysquat about British football teams, for one thing.

    Describing Characters of Color, pt. 2 « 2009

  • This achieves the important public policy goal of … diddlysquat.

    Andrew Coyne 2010

  • 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

  • I thought I understood racism, but I didn't know diddlysquat.

    Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad 2009

  • The Delaware State Police do absolutely jack diddlysquat, nothing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009 2009

  • 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.

    Firedoglake » 33%: Cutting Into The Base 2006

  • This year as we all know that all changed because history and tradition don't mean diddlysquat in

    [sic] 2009

  • This year as we all know that all changed because history and tradition don't mean diddlysquat in

    [sic] 2009

  • In the period spoken of (1920s/1930s) the combined economic power of SLC and Phoenix was diddlysquat.

    Autoblog Green 2009

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