‘Kind of makes up for doing diddly-squat over the weekend, I feel.’ ‘Just because my blood happened to be on a note in my neighbor's yard (albeit, dead neighbor) means diddly-squat.’ ‘I now know that whether you win or lose is really all about luck, and that studying all the form books in all the world won't get you diddly-squat. A few months ago, Jeremy opened the 'Diddly Squat Farm Shop' on site to sell products from the farm along with other interesting items, including candles that, in his own words, apparently ‘smell like his b.ks’. As everything, for him, was an article of faith, nothing, to his mind, was difficult to understand: the Great Flood had covered the entire world; before, men had the misfortune of living a thousand years; God conversed with them; Noah had taken one hundred years to build the ark; while the earth, suspended in air, stood firmly at the center of the universe that God had created out of nothingness. If it is the Diddly Squat I knew He is an elderly (70ish) comic who lived in Philly but traveled to NYC to do comedy open mikes. Very genial and politically left but not especially funny. Diddly Squat was born in a noisy inn on the outskirts of Philadelphia, at 3:00 PM on Thursday January 20th 1732. His mother was a waitress for this popular tavern of the day and was busy serving.
Who Is Diddly Squat
/ ˈdud liˌskwɒt /
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Probably euphemistic variant of doodly-shit,diddlyshit; see doodle1, diddle2, -y2
doodad, doodah, doodle, doodlebug, doodlesack, doodly-squat, doo-doo, doofus, Doohan, doohickey, dook
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squat, shred, jack, naught, whit, iota, nada, diddly-squat, ounce, anything