variants
or doodly-squats
as in damns
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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Noun
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Kershaw was on the winning end more often than not, but that didn’t mean the Giants didn’t also get in their licks.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025 -
From bouncy dancehall riddims and hip-hop production inflections to tender country and western guitar licks, Treasure Self Love distills Iké’s wide range of childhood music into a succinct 11-track study of achieving wholeness by unflinchingly examining the darkest parts of your past.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
18 Sep. 2025
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New York is haunted by the ghosts of chainglorious restaurants of ages past—remember Tom Colicchio’s terrific ’wichcraft?—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Ezra is a doula who can see ghosts, and Jonathan is a widower mourning his late husband, Ben, who Ezra can inexplicably both see and hear, even though that definitely breaks ghost rules.—
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Englishes source their beans from Ethiopia, and infuse their roasts with spices, the way producers in Africa and the Middle East enjoy their coffee.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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This recipe is filled with smoky chicken, sweet pops of corn, and earthy beans.—
Marianne Williams,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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All the segments understand the assignment, aiming primarily to elicit hoots and hollers.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The town hall crowd received my comments with strong clapping and appreciative hoots and hollers.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Two words, two syllables; one from earth, the other of heaven.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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The name can be pronounced with two syllables (/ˈkwɑːwɑːr/) or three (/ˈkwɑːoʊ(w)ɑːr/).—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Doodley-squats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doodley-squats. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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