doodley-squat

noun

dood·​ley-squat ˈdü-dᵊl-ē-ˌskwät 

variants or doodly-squat

: diddly-squat

Synonyms

• beans
• bubkes
• bupkes
• bupkus
• continental
• damn
• darn
• durn
• diddly [slang]
• diddly-squat [slang]
• fig
• ghost
• hoot
• iota
• jot
• lick
• modicum
• rap
• squat [slang]
• syllable
• tittle
• whit
• whoop

Examples of doodley-squat in a Sentence

tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology

Word History

Etymology

doodley (perhaps alteration of do one's do to defecate) + squat

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above