Word.ws English Dictionary

tiddley

tiddley is the alternative form of diddly.

Meaning of diddly

Noun (1)

diddly (countable and uncountable, plural diddlies)

  1. (informal) A small amount of no worth.
    • They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don't say diddly. They don't talk. Not a word, like they're deaf and dumb.1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Noun (2)

diddly (plural diddlies)

  1. (childish, slang, sometimes) penis
    • "My child is going to be taught all about sex as soon as he can understand. Mother-in-law is always clucking to him about his diddly. No, no, I say, you must call it penis."1968, Monica Dickens, The Landlord's Daughter, Doubleday & Company, page 268

See all 3 meanings of diddly

Forms of tiddley

pluraltiddleys

Phrases with tiddley

Questions about tiddley

What is tiddley the alternative form of?
Tiddley is the alternative form of diddly.

Words near tiddley in the dictionary

  1. tiddledywink
  2. tiddledywinks
  3. tiddler
  4. tiddlers
  5. tiddles
  6. tiddley
  7. tiddley suit
  8. tiddley suits
  9. Tiddley Winks
  10. tiddleys
  11. tiddleywink

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tiddley (page history and authors); diddly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tiddley.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tiddley. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.