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- noun Alternative form of
doodly-squat .
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Examples
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As a resident of MAssachusetts, I can safely say he did doodley-squat here in four years.
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The fact is very simple: the pollsters do not know doodley-squat about what is going to happen in Pennsylvania, they don't know doodley-squat about what will happen in the general election after two convention bumps and post-convention campaigning, and everybody here is frothing about the mouth because they know what's going to happen?
Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents 2009
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It was written for the corporations, so of course it won't work for doodley-squat.
Obama & Democrats Give Americans a Healthcare Con Job for Christmas 2009
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It was written for the corporations, so of course it won't work for doodley-squat.
Obama & Democrats Give Americans a Healthcare Con Job for Christmas 2009
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Um, you speak of what you very, very clearly know not doodley-squat about, Anton, in befouling the humorously playful Master Therion with a complete ass and villian like, well, ANY of the ID and Creationist mob, so leave Al Crowley out of this!
Ecstatic because "critical analysis of X" removed from standards? - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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= Telling Americans they are safer when one has not done doodley-squat to better care for the security of our ports, major cities and so on;
Think Progress » VIDEO: Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down Fox News 2006
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In other news, I stayed home today, didn't do doodley-squat, and half my face is numb from the fillings I just got.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2004
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[Laughter] The older I get, the real - the more I realize I don't know doodley-squat.
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It was written for the corporations, so of course it won't work for doodley-squat.
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It was written for the corporations, so of course it won't work for doodley-squat.
skipvia commented on the word doodley-squat
From Robert Gordon's "My Gal is Red Hot;" variant of diddly-squat.
October 8, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word doodley-squat
also used in Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions."
October 8, 2007
skipvia commented on the word doodley-squat
Wow. Talk about highbrow/lowbrow...
October 8, 2007
dinkum commented on the word doodley-squat
WORD: doodley-squat
DEFINITION:
(1) An unsatisfactory bowel movement which produces a negligible amount of feces -- the stuff that barely dribbles out, and when it comes out, comes out measly 'kibbles-and-bits').
(2) By extension, an unsatisfying, negligible amount of anything.
(3) Something worthless produced after great effort; a "big nothing".
EXAMPLES:
(1) ' America was . . . the richest and most powerful country on the planet.
' Most other countries didn't have doodley-squat.'
-- From Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions" -- Chapter 1 (page 12).
(2) 'Everybody in America was supposed to grab whatever he could and hold onto it. Some Americans were very good at grabbing and holding, were fabulously well-to-do. Others couldn't get their hands on doodley-squat.'
-- From "Breakfast of Champions" -- Ch. 1 (p. 13).
(3) ' Here is what they paid him: doodley-squat.'
-- From "Breakfast of Champions" -- Ch. 2 (p. 21).
(4) 'People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. So they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
' The results had been catastrophic so far -- suicide, theft, murder, and insanity and so on.'
-- From "Breakfast of Champions" -- Ch. 8 (p. 71).
(5) ' He would be rendered destitute. He would become . . . an old man on . . . Skid Row. He would be by no means the only drifter of whom it could be truthfully said, "See him? Can you believe it? He doesn't have a doodley-squat now, but he used to be fabulously well-do-do." '
-- From "Breakfast of Champions" -- Ch. 24 (p. 280).
August 24, 2013