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Here is the full sentence.

いったいなにをさわいどるんかの

What does the bolded part mean?

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It's [一体]{いったい}[何]{なに}を[騒]{さわ}いでいるんだ? or 騒いでいるんですか? "What's the fuss about?" in some regional dialect or the role language for old speakers.

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    To add, what is happening here is that おる is basically a dialectal form of いる, so we have さわいでおる, and then the でお contracts to ど, giving さわいどる.
    – senshin
    Commented Apr 11, 2015 at 0:55

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