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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Variant of titty. Attested from the late eighteenth century.
Noun
diddy (plural diddies)
- (slang) A woman's breast.
1911, Joseph Campbell, Mearing Stones:It’s what they call a roany bush. Well, it’s green now, but in a month’s time it’ll be as red as a fox’s diddy, and you wouldn’t know it for berries growing all over it.
2015, Martha Long, Run, Lily, Run, →ISBN, page 155:They always have a big belly or a new babby hidden inside the shawl suckin on her diddy.
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- (informal, Ireland, British) A fool, a tit.
2004 September 9, Iain McFadzen, “Remake of Taxi pissing me off”, in CGTalk:Hell, I almost regret editing out my original miss-spelling of the word 'literacy', since your sense of humour seems to be in need of some assistance, and that would have been a classic, one-off opportunity not only to make me look a right diddy, but to finally prove that Americans do understand irony.
Adjective
diddy (comparative diddier, superlative diddiest)
- (UK, informal) very small, tiny
1894, R. Brimley Johnson, editor, Popular British Ballads Ancient and Modern, “Robbie Tamson’s Smiddie”:Me mither mend't me auld breeks, / But ay! but they were diddy;
2013, Angela Woolfe, The Surprising Life of Charlie Glass (size 18 and a Bit), →ISBN, page 380:There's a pear orchard, and a knot garden, and a diddy little lake that's just big enough to swim in . . . hey, if the weather stays like this, we can have a dip tomorrow.
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Synonyms
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Etymology 2
Likely from Romani didikai; compare didicoy.
Noun
diddy (plural diddies)
- (UK, slang) A gypsy.
1943, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 82:Real Gypsies despise them and call them ' diddikais — dirty diddies,' and half the sins laid at their door have been committed by these diddikais.
2011, Mary Ellen Dennis, The Greatest Love on Earth, →ISBN, page 90:Last month a diddy told my fortune.
2012, Curtis Evans, Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery, →ISBN:To the typical genre reader a diddy would be, to borrow a term from John Dickson Carr, below suspicion.