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Meanings of diddly in English

Portuguese
porcaria nenhuma

A small worthless amount.

      porcaria nenhuma
      Synonyms
      Examples for "jack"
      Examples for "jack"
      1
      Med-jack said you were there one second and buggin' gone the next.
      The Maze Runner
      2
      The tiny issue of the headphone jack also needs to be resolved.
      The South African
      3
      The cards flipped again, and a huge message read: run home jack!
      Hook
      4
      Jack could only think of one possible answer: they were under attack.
      Stars rain down
      5
      Jack wasn't quite thirty and he'd already seen thousands of open wounds.
      Stars rain down
      1
      Explosion hazard.' But then here's 'Low air,' and 'five'... shit, 'four minutes.'
      Nemesis Game
      2
      Our official diplomatic response was summed up as-problemtoo hard, tough shit.
      Man in the Middle
      3
      Of course, she wanted to point out what a shit I was.
      The Sense of an Ending
      4
      Yes, I feel sorry for the victims on whom the shit falls.
      The South African
      5
      Despite the best precautions and the best intentions, sometimes shit just happens.
      The President's Assassin
      1
      Each one was different, some small and squat, others tall and long.
      The Necromancer
      2
      I squat down on a cushion; I don't know what to say.
      The half life of stars: a novel
      3
      Her attention wandered to the squat Chinese god in the glass case.
      Linda Condon
      4
      Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.
      History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
      5
      The girls were brought and made to squat in front of him.
      Primitive Love and Love-Stories
      1
      He charges Doodles, who slips past him and goes into a chuckling, high-stepping diddley-bop.
      Black house
      2
      This time last year, the name Macy Gray meant diddley-squat to the great record-buying public.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Apart from maybe keeping the rain out, diddley squat.
      The Irish Times
      4
      It's a diddley-eye date with destiny as the Dancing With The Stars semi-final doubles as St Patrick's Day-themed celebration of Irish music.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Do they call The Corrs, who have the requisite diddley-aye quotient, and who have already appeared on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210?
      The Irish Times
      1
      He's got a virus, and that stuff doesn't do doodly-squat for viruses.
      Pet Sematary
      2
      I had never before grasped that doodly-squat was less than horsepucky, but it's always nice to learn something new.
      Dexter in the Dark
      3
      "Not doodly-squat," I said.
      Dexter in the Dark
      4
      "Then, you've got doodly-squat," she said and looked away, back to where Captain Matthews was answering questions with his solemn, manly jaw jutting out.
      Dexter in the Dark
      1
      Billions handed to private business, and near-enough diddly-squat to anyone else.
      Independent.ie
      2
      It's not going to make diddly-squat worth of difference to the safety of our community.
      Radio NZ
      3
      Actually, we've already signed it, but that means diddly-squat until Parliament signs off on that.
      Radio NZ
      4
      Not many people can say "diddly-squat" and still be taken seriously.
      The Kingmaker
      5
      The breakthroughs get a lot of attention, but attention means diddly-squat in the bigger picture.
      Wired
      1
      I am not ordering you to do diddly-shit, Dimitrova.
      Jem
      2
      Larry: "Well... don't we have enough other things to worry about without hacking around with a bunch of diddly-shit bureaucracy?"
      The stand
      1
      That seems like supreme diddlyshit now, but it was a very big deal then.'
      Bag of Bones
      Usage of diddly in English
      1
      So I started looking into the Seraphim and couldn't find out diddly.
      The Water Witch
      2
      Fact two: There wasn't diddly I could do to the Big Hoods.
      Ghost Story
      3
      Billions handed to private business, and near-enough diddly-squat to anyone else.
      Independent.ie
      4
      People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names.
      Storm front
      5
      The Russian's gear wouldn't do diddly to stop swords or claws.
      Small favor
      6
      But what you have on Finney, Ryan said, is diddly.
      Devil Bones
      7
      And there's a strange diddly-eye Irish folk vibe peddled on My Godand Dreaming Again.
      The Irish Times
      8
      She might know a lot about food, but she obviously doesn't know diddly about accessorizing.
      Pasta Imperfect
      9
      It's not going to make diddly-squat worth of difference to the safety of our community.
      Radio NZ
      10
      Actually, we've already signed it, but that means diddly-squat until Parliament signs off on that.
      Radio NZ
      11
      Not many people can say "diddly-squat" and still be taken seriously.
      The Kingmaker
      12
      The breakthroughs get a lot of attention, but attention means diddly-squat in the bigger picture.
      Wired
      13
      It's perfect, even if it means jack-diddly-squat to me.
      The Guardian
      14
      I am not ordering you to do diddly-shit, Dimitrova.
      Jem
      15
      Now there's nothin but the drive-in, and that doesn't show anything but those diddly-daddly pitchers.
      The stand
      16
      But that's rubbish, because we are stacked here waiting for the train doing diddly squat.
      The Guardian
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      Diddly through the time