diddly
noun/ˈdɪdəli/UK
Etymology
Possibly shortened from diddlywhacker.
Definitions
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.
A written representation of a trill sound.
- ...When combined with the following picked note, this gives a rhythmic 'diddly-dum' effect.
- It's easy enough for him to go “diddly-diddly-diddly-dum” a thousand and one times, whereas with me it's “diddly-diddly-diddly- omigodIcan'tbreathe-dum!”)
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."
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for diddly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA