"how are you diddling" meaning in English

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