diddlyshit

Other forms of diddlyshit

plural

diddlyshits·

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 diddlyshit

What does diddlyshit mean?

diddlyshit means "a small worthless amount".

How many syllables are in diddlyshit?

diddlyshit has 3 syllables and divides as didd-ly-shit under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diddlyshit?

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 diddlyshit a common word?

diddlyshit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.