hiya doin'

9.9

A friendly informal greeting asking how someone is

idiom

: ¿qué tal?

Whenever I pass my neighbor, she always greets me with a friendly 'hiya doin'?'.

Examples

In the café, he leaned over and asked, 'hiya doin'?' before taking his seat.
I just wanted to say hiya doin' to everyone!
He walked in and said, 'hiya doin'?' to everyone in the room.
Hey, hiya doin'?
He walked in and said, 'hiya doin'?' to everyone in the room.
In the café, he leaned over and asked, 'hiya doin'?' before taking his seat.
Whenever I pass my neighbor, she always greets me with a friendly 'hiya doin'?.

Synonyms

what's good

vshiya doin'

Informal

38 9.1

A casual greeting asking how someone is or what's new

asks more generally about personal wellbeing than about positives

sup

vshiya doin'

Slang

27 9.9

A short informal greeting used to ask how someone is

asks about wellbeing in a friendly informal way

hiya

vshiya doin'

9 8.0

A friendly, informal way to say hello

asks about how someone is rather than only saying hello

wassup

vshiya doin'

Slang

3 9.9

A casual way to ask someone how they are or what they are doing

asks specifically about wellbeing rather than any activity

suh

vshiya doin'

Slang

2 9.9

A casual way to say hello to someone

asks about wellbeing rather than serving only as a greeting

heya

vshiya doin'

Informal

1 8.6

A friendly informal way to say hello

functions as a question about wellbeing rather than just a greeting

supp

vshiya doin'

Slang

9.9

A casual hello used to ask how someone is doing

focuses on asking about wellbeing rather than just greeting

happenin'

vshiya doin'

Slang

9.9

A casual greeting that asks what is going on

is more narrowly about checking on wellbeing than general events

Antonyms

goodbye

∞ 1.0

Words people say when they leave each other

farewell

199 1.9

A speech or action that says goodbye and wishes someone well

Surface Forms

hiya doin' main

Morphology

hiya + doin'

The phrase combines a greeting 'hiya' with the colloquial 'doin'' (doing), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it means 'how are you doing?' or 'how are you?'. The informal contraction and dropped auxiliary are stylistic but do not obscure the compositional meaning, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.

Etymology

Hiya doin' comes from people shortening 'how are you doing?' into a quick, friendly question, with hiya as a casual 'hi' for 'you' and doin' for 'doing'. Picture someone leaning in and asking hiya doin'?, and you get why it now simply means 'how are you?'.