how are you diddling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Popularised by comedian Ken Dodd (1927–2018).

Phrase[edit]

how are you diddling?

  1. (British, colloquial, humorous) How are you doing?
    • 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:
      Repeats many sentences and hundreds of words, including the following: […] “Hello, are you working? How are 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:
      Hello old 'un, how you diddling?
    • 2019 January 14, Sara Cox, Sara Cox (radio broadcast), via BBC Radio 2:
      Yo yo yo. How are you diddling then? And wasn't Zoe fantastic this morning?
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