diddly-squat
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
diddly-squat (uncountable)
- (US slang, often humorous) Nothing; nothing whatsoever.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:nothing
- 2004, Barbara Sutton, The Send-away Girl: Stories, University of Georgia Press (ISBN 9780820326559), page 184:
- I didn't know diddly-squat about development; I also didn't know that someone could be an “officer” of major gifts. “Do they wear badges?” my friends had wanted to know, because my friends, like myself, had been completely ignorant of the field of development.
- 2007, Chris Stewart, The Fourth War, Macmillan (ISBN 9781429909259)
- Money? Power? Maybe a little prestige? Everything they worked for amounted to diddly-squat; more money, bigger houses, more and more empty air. None of them would ever know the feeling of having a purpose in life.
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