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doodley-squat

doodley-squat is the alternative form of diddly-squat.

Meaning of diddly-squat

Noun

diddly-squat (uncountable)

  1. (US, humorous, often, slang) Nothing; nothing whatsoever.
    • 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.2004, Barbara Sutton, The Send-away Girl: Stories, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 184

Questions about doodley-squat

What is doodley-squat the alternative form of?
Doodley-squat is the alternative form of diddly-squat.

Words near doodley-squat in the dictionary

  1. doodlers
  2. doodles
  3. doodlesack
  4. doodlesacks
  5. doodley
  6. doodley-squat
  7. doodling
  8. doodlings
  9. doodly
  10. doodly-squat
  11. doodoo

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