Diddly
intj, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A small amount of no worth. countable, informal, uncountable
"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."
- 2 penis childish, slang, sometimes
""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.""
- 3 a small worthless amount wordnet
- 1 A written representation of a trill sound.
"On the handcar mornings or evenings he would amuse his companion by pumping away to a triple-tongued pattern, which he would hum emphatically as they rolled along: "dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee dee-dum dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee...""
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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."
Etymology
Short for diddly-squat.
Onomatopoeic.
Possibly shortened from diddlywhacker.
Related phrases
More for "diddly"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.