doodley-squat

noun

ˈdü-dᵊl-ē-ˌskwät How to pronounce doodley-squat (audio)
variants or doodly-squat
Definition of doodley-squatnext
as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology

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  1. damn
  2. whit
  3. ghost
  4. hoot
  5. lick
Noun
  • Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
Definition of damn
Noun
  • The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.
    Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
Definition of whit
Noun
  • The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Easier said than done since many of the ghosts that haunt Light Shop are jump-out-of-your-seat scary.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of ghost
Noun
  • From the condom in the soup, no, chowder (that’s not how Ina Garten makes her chowder), to the diners’ nonplussed reactions when Yancy tells them all to stop eating, all the food inspector stuff is an absolute hoot.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Oldman seems to be having a hoot in the role, too, which has landed him one of the show’s aforementioned Emmy nominations.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Definition of hoot
Noun
  • Trills, angular licks, and chromatic riffs washed over the 100 or so gathered people.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Unleashing jet streams of arpeggios, phrases, harmonics and licks, the New York native often looked as if he slow-danced with an invisible partner.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of lick
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