"No-diggity": Meaning "without a doubt" or "unquestionabally true"
Often doesn't have it's own definition. Only when placed with other words
it really has a meaning
1. No diggity = no doubt, for sure
In the "hood" no diggity was popular at one time.
--Manaia
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--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Denis Beauregard
<denis.b-at-francogene.com@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Le Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:11:57 -0500,
> melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Robert Melson) écrivait dans soc.genealogy.misc:
>
> >That's true of just about every language.
> Colloquialisms - expressions
> >without a direct meaning in or of themselves but that,
> through use,
> >have assumed a meaning contrary to the actual words.
> One I learned
>
> There is a very common expression in French : sans doute
>
> If you translate it directly, you get : without a doubt,
> with no doubt
>
> But it actually means : probably, with a small doubt
>
> And you will see this expression in many genealogical
> papers, i.e.
> someone writing John was probably the son of James and Mary
> but
> read as John was for sure the son of James and Mary.
>
>
> Denis
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