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how are you diddling

how are you diddling phrase: how are you doing?

Phrase

how are you diddling?

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated, humorous) How are you doing?
    • Repeats many sentences and hundreds of words, including the following: […] “Hello, are you working? How are you diddling?”1905 October 21, “King of wild beast merchants, Cross, Liverpool. Wonderful talking grey parrot”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 127, number 347, page 588
    • Hello old 'un, how you diddling?1983 December 25, John Sullivan, “Thicker than Water” (2:52 from the start), in Only Fools and Horses (television production), spoken by Reg Trotter (Peter Woodthorpe), via BBC1

Origin of how are you diddling

Popularised by comedian Ken Dodd (1927–2018).

Questions about how are you diddling

What does how are you diddling mean?
How are you diddling means how are you doing?
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How are you diddling is a phrase.

Words near how are you diddling in the dictionary

  1. how about no
  2. how about that
  3. how about them apples
  4. how are things
  5. how are you
  6. how are you diddling
  7. how are you doing
  8. how are you getting along
  9. how are you going
  10. how are you keeping
  11. how bist

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