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  • noun a small worthless amount

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Examples

  • A more general google search brought up lots and lots and lots of biomed internships, but diddly-shit for psychology.

    Archive 2009-03-01 JLK 2009

  • A more general google search brought up lots and lots and lots of biomed internships, but diddly-shit for psychology.

    Shouldn't Be This Difficult JLK 2009

  • I don't really know to what an aversion to period sex is attributable, but I do know that it doesn't have diddly-shit to do with one's sexuality, so casting a man who doesn't like it as "gay" is just an unjustified smear against gay men.

    Surf the Crimson Wave With Me, Baby 2007

  • I don't really know to what an aversion to period sex is attributable, but I do know that it doesn't have diddly-shit to do with one's sexuality, so casting a man who doesn't like it as "gay" is just an unjustified smear against gay men.

    Surf the Crimson Wave With Me, Baby 2007

  • Women marching in the streets never did diddly-shit for feminism.

    A post-Roe USA 2004

  • Just a lot of waste, names that don't mean diddly-shit!

    Complete Lurics to U2 Negativland 1991

  • 5. Why is it that when I have a million things to do, people are blogging and commenting up a storm, but when I've got diddly-shit going on, the whole blogosphere seems to have disappeared?

    Random Thoughts JLK 2009

  • 5. Why is it that when I have a million things to do, people are blogging and commenting up a storm, but when I've got diddly-shit going on, the whole blogosphere seems to have disappeared?

    Archive 2009-02-01 JLK 2009

  • If there is no demand for the products (if the consumers can’t pay for them, for example, or if people just don’t want it), then all the supply in the world isn’t going to make diddly-shit worth of difference.

    Think Progress » Kerry tells climate advocates to get as angry as Tea Partiers. 2010

  • I suppose to do so would require us to admit that discussions of crowning ourselves with a saleable aura of virtue and ethics don’t really mean diddly-shit when all we can do with this aura is use it to shill for the chronically self-centered and arrogantly unvirtuous elite that sit comfortably and immovably on both sides of the aisle.

    Various readings about Lakoff and Framing 2005

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