diddley

Other forms of diddley

plural

diddleys·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diddley

What does diddley mean?

diddley means "a small worthless amount".

How many syllables are in diddley?

diddley has 2 syllables: didd-ley. The stress falls on "didd". In IPA it is /ˈdɪdli/.

What is another word for diddley?

Close synonyms include jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diddley a common word?

diddley is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.