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Single-stringed American instrument
The diddley bow is a single-stringed American instrument that influenced the development of the blues sound. It consists of a single string of baling
Diddley_bow
American guitarist and singer (1928–2008)
among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa. On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television
Bo_Diddley
tranh (Vietnam) Ðàn Tre (Vietnam) Đàn tứ (Vietnam) Đàn tỳ bà (Vietnam) Diddley bow (United States) Dombra (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia)
List_of_string_instruments
Guitar technique
against a plucked string goes back to the diddley bow derived from a one-stringed African instrument. The diddley bow is believed to be one of the ancestors
Slide_guitar
American blues singer (1955–1998)
electric guitar, Pitchford was skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin, as well as the double bass
Lonnie_Pitchford
American blues guitarist and singer (born 1936)
blues musician. He began learning to play the guitar using a two-string diddley bow he made. Later he was given a Harmony acoustic guitar which, decades
Buddy_Guy
American singer
was an American Detroit blues musician, who specialised in playing the diddley bow. Details of his life are scant, but he recorded two tracks described
One_String_Sam
Topics referred to by the same term
Perfume, a novel by Tom Robbins Jitterbug Wireless, a mobile phone company Diddley bow, a musical instrument "Jitterbug", a song by Ellegarden "Jitterbuggin'"
Jitterbug_(disambiguation)
Chinese plucked string instrument
will bend the pitch of the string to higher or lower notes. Đàn bầu Diddley bow Traditional Chinese musical instruments "Duxianqin". Cultural China.
Duxianqin
American blues musician (1923–1992)
"upside down," which shaped his sound. King's first instrument was a diddley bow. Next, he built himself a cigar box guitar, and eventually he bought
Albert_King
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader (1918–1963)
making music at the age of 12, using a simple one-string instrument (diddley bow, or jitterbug) strung on a shack wall. As a teen he performed at dances
Elmore_James
Traditional Brazilian musical bow
musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as sekitulege among the Baganda and Busoga. It consists of a single-stringed bow attached
Berimbau
Soundtrack and score to the 2025 film
Harmonica: Bobby Rush, Ross Garren Fife: Sharde Thomas Mallory, Chris Mallory Diddley bow: James "Super Chikan" Johnson Sean-nós vocals: Iarla Ó Lionáird Choctaw
Sinners_(soundtrack)
Musical instrument
plays a cigar box ukulele on his 2017 video for "Come On Christmas". Diddley Bow Lowebow Jug band Washtub bass Luthier Kabosy Ramkie Hyman, Tony (1972)
Cigar_box_guitar
Subcategory of string instruments
tam (Vietnam) Đàn tranh (Vietnam) Đàn tỳ bà (Vietnam) Daruan (China) Diddley bow (United States) Dombra (East Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia,
Plucked_string_instrument
Music genre originating in 1860s
Piano, written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes. The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South
Blues
American singer-songwriter
experimenting with music using a sugarcane syrup bucket and a broom-wire diddley bow. Around 1947, he and the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where
Bobby_Rush_(musician)
American blues musician (born 1951)
Occupations Musician songwriter recording engineer Instruments Vocals guitar diddley bow stomp box banjo harmonica Labels Caroline International Atlantic Warner
Seasick_Steve
American musician
experience, as well as borrowing from the concepts of the gutbucket and the diddley bow. The Magic Boot is a scorpion-emblazoned cowboy boot, which is wired
That_1_Guy
One-stringed guitar
reverberating body like an acoustic guitar. Seasick Steve Brushy One String Diddley bow Ektara Whamola "Building a Unitar". Onestringwillie.com. Retrieved 23
Unitar_(instrument)
instruments Dangubica chordophones 321.322 Croatia Serbia stringed instruments Diddley bow chordophones 3 United States stringed instruments Dihu chordophones 3
List_of_musical_instruments
2006. "Lonnie Pitchford Dies: The only recording artist who played the "diddley bow," has died of Aids". Blues News. October 11, 1998. Archived from the
List_of_HIV-positive_people
1965 single by the Strangeloves
song that uses the Bo Diddley beat. It has gone on to spawn multiple successful cover versions, including by The Tremeloes, Bow Wow Wow, Aaron Carter
I_Want_Candy
Williams Luther Dickinson, guitarist for the North Mississippi Allstars Diddley bow Cigar box guitar Slide guitar Washtub bass "lowebow". Retrieved 30 November
Lowebow
Musical artist
little whittled stick in his right hand". It is directly related to the diddley bow, which in itself derived from West African instruments; however, Jones's
Eddie_"One_String"_Jones
Musical artist (born 1946)
many instruments Cooper-Moore has built are a diddley-bow, a three-string fretless banjo, and a mouth bow. Cooper-Moore received the Lifetime Achievement
Cooper-Moore
American television series (2016–2018)
Georgia include dirt-track driving, touring an Elvis museum & visiting a diddley bow artisan; a side trip to Texas has Ozzy & Jack serving as Honorary Race
Ozzy_&_Jack's_World_Detour
American science fiction author (born 1974)
John McFetridge (April 2016, ECW Press, ISBN 978-1-77041-292-7) "The Diddley Bow Horror" in Redneck Eldritch edited by Nathan Shumate (April 2016, Cold
Brad_R._Torgersen
2025 studio album by Ben LaMar Gay
adapted from Bandcamp. Ben LaMar Gay – cornet, voice, synth, bells, diddley bow, percussion, programming, manipulations Tommaso Moretti – drums, percussion
Yowzers
American blues musician (born 1951)
an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a diddley bow. As he grew up, he came up with new ways to improve and vary the sounds
Super_Chikan
Dinki Mini mourning ceremonies in Saint Mary Parish and Portland Parish. Diddley bow, a similar slide-monochord in the United States Maureen Warner-Lewis
Benta_(instrument)
American singer-songwriter (1923–2006)
life, and she is an important and well-known ... Hemphill plays the diddley bow on her She Wolf album, in the song 'Take Me Home and Put Me in Your Big
Jessie_Mae_Hemphill
American singer and guitarist (born 1945)
and began singing the blues in solitude. He eventually built himself a diddley bow on the side of his grandmother's house out of broom wire, two nails and
John_Primer
hambone - juba dance - ring dance - shout banjo - bones - cowbell - diddley bow - fiddle - harmonica - tambourine - washtub bass blue note - camp meeting
List of North American folk music traditions
List_of_North_American_folk_music_traditions
American jazz flautist and composer (born 1967)
JoVia Armstrong [de] on drums and electronics, and Coco Elysses [de] on diddley bow, and everyone singing. (In 2022, Elysses and Armstrong are Chair and
Nicole_Mitchell_(musician)
American non-profit corporation
Mississippi. This headstone was designed to have a playable, one-string diddley bow mounted on the side as per the family's wishes. In April 2001, a headstone
Mount_Zion_Memorial_Fund
taught him how to play. He became adept with guitar, drums, harmonica, diddley bow, fife, and all manner of percussion. He was primarily a fife player and
Napoleon_Strickland
session with his Three Stringed Tranz Wonder he moved onto his one-string Diddley bow. During "Thunderbird" he selected a rain-soaked poncho-clad female member
Oxegen_2008
2009 studio album by Darius Jones
moving to New York. Cooper-Moore was asked specifically to also play diddley bow, a one-wire stringed instrument with roots in the deep south via Africa
Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)
Man'ish_Boy_(A_Raw_&_Beautiful_Thing)
Characteristics of African culture in the Americas
of African origin, from the Bantu culture of Angola, include drums, diddley bows, mouthbows, the washtub bass, jugs, gongs, bells, rattles, ideophones
Africanisms
Musical artist
uses unusual musical instruments such as a dulcitone and a 3-string diddley-bow. Other influences include Steve Reich. The Hum (Village Green, 2020)
Ben_Chatwin
Residential building in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans artists. Erica Larkin designed doorpulls inspired by the Diddley Bow; David Borgerding created Conversation, a monumental mailbox sculpture;
Rice_Mill_Lofts
Transit hub in Boston, Massachusetts, US
work, commissioned in 1986 and completed in 1989, combines imagery of diddley bows and wave physics. Geom-a-tree, by Paul Goodnight, Elaine Sayoko Yoneoka
Ruggles_station
American Chicago blues guitarist
remarried, leaving him in the care of his grandparents. He made his own diddley bow, nailing baling twine to the side of their house. He frequently visited
Sammy_Lawhorn
American artist (born 1968)
enlarged, geometric interpretations of historical instruments like the diddley bow, zither, and Aeolian harp. The works emitted distinct sounds as wind
Jennie_C._Jones
American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (1926–2015)
hearing adults playing at family gatherings. He graduated from playing the diddley bow to a Sears acoustic guitar. In the early 1950s, he formed the Rhythm
Eddie_Cusic
American singer-songwriter
co-written by Randy Archer and Johnny Park, formerly of the duo Archer/Park. "Diddley", which peaked at No. 56 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
Elbert_West
American R&B, funk and soul guitarist (1935–1996)
Bo Diddley's 1996 and final studio album, A Man Amongst Men, playing vocoder on the track "I Can't Stand It" and singing on the track "Bo Diddley Is Crazy"
Johnny_"Guitar"_Watson
Rock club in New York City
13th Anniversary Show - Ritz NY - Jan 16, 1986 was recorded there. Bo Diddley recorded Live at The Ritz with Ronnie Wood in 1987. The second disc of
The_Ritz_(rock_club)
American football and baseball player (born 1962)
series of advertisements by Nike, starring Jackson alongside musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Jackson. A 1991 hip
Bo_Jackson
English blues and psychedelic rock band
repertoire drew from the Chicago blues of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Elmore James, including "Smokestack Lightning"
The_Yardbirds
English musician (born 1949)
the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, and blues musicians such as Bo Diddley as influences, and mostly learned to play bass by "listening to records
Cliff_Williams
in Toronto 1969. (Also appearing at the festival were Alice Cooper, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry - whose performances of the event were also issued on albums
Chicago_discography
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
London. Retrieved April 28, 2009. Caulfield, Keith (May 6, 2009). "Bob Dylan Bows Atop Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved May 7, 2009. Erlewine, Stephen
Bob_Dylan
1981 single by David Bowie
Musically, the song contains numerous time signature changes and a Bo Diddley-inspired beat. The song has received positive reviews from music critics
Up_the_Hill_Backwards
American artist and musician (born 1947)
recordings and performances. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in
Laurie_Anderson
American singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Dolly_Parton
Ward Dickson Richard del Valle 1910–1978 Canadian producer and writer Bo Diddley Ellas McDaniel 1928–2008 American guitarist Trife Diesel Theo Bailey 1980–
List_of_stage_names
American musician (born 1944)
vocals with the guitarist. Cetera's early musical influences include Bo Diddley, Ritchie Valens, Little Richard, Jimmy Reed, and the Ventures. After he
Peter_Cetera
American rock musician (born 1948)
mental, or moral standards. Nugent's influences include Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard. The first lineup of the Amboy Dukes played at The
Ted_Nugent
Lipkins, J. Forest) – The Brain Twist "The Twister" (E. McDaniel) – Bo Diddley (UK release) "Twisting & Shaking" – (J. T. Ratliff) J. T. Ratliff "Wesoły
List_of_twist_songs
Robinson – "Makin' Love" (1959) Nina Simone – "I Loves You, Porgy" (1959) Bo Diddley – "Say Man" (1959) Mormon Tabernacle Choir – "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
List of one-hit wonders in the United States
List_of_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States
British rock band
and Popular Music. Ashgate Publishing. p. 124. "Freddie Mercury's Final Bow: Director Rudi Dolezal Recalls the Queen Legend's Poignant Last Video". People
Queen_(band)
American late-night musical variety television series
Trick Lou Christie Petula Clark Alice Cooper Jim Croce Billy Crystal Bo Diddley The Doobie Brothers Earth, Wind & Fire Electric Light Orchestra Mama Cass
The Midnight Special (TV series)
The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series)
American singer and actress (born 1946)
Hetrick, Adam (August 18, 2019). "Broadway's The Cher Show Takes Final Bow August 18". Playbill. Retrieved November 22, 2024. Masseron, Meg (May 28
Cher
1946 song composed by Allie Wrubel
producer Phil Spector reconfigured "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" in a style akin to Bo Diddley. According to former girlfriend Annette Merar, the song had come to Spector
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
von Aue, Mary (1 March 2018). "David Bowie Retrospective Starts Its Final Bow at Brooklyn Museum". Billboard. Archived from the original on 14 March 2018
David_Bowie
American musician (1936–1959)
not impress the audience, but they were accepted after they included "Bo Diddley". By the end of their run at the Apollo, "That'll Be the Day" was climbing
Buddy_Holly
American and Greek soprano (1923–1977)
"The Company That Works". Opera News. 69 (2). Ross Parmenter, "Maria Callas Bows at Opening of 'Met'", The New York Times (October 30, 1956), p. 1. Cantrell
Maria_Callas
American musician (1933–2006)
stuff's got to be intact. You gotta have the bow tie. You got to have it. You can't come up without the bow tie. You cannot come up without a cummerbund
James_Brown
American singer and actor (1915–1998)
singing group called the 3 Flashes, who were auditioning for the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show, to let him join. Baritone Fred Tamburro stated, "Frank
Frank_Sinatra
American musician and actor (1942–2008)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Isaac_Hayes
American guitarist (1942–2004)
Ascension (1966), Elvis Presley's singles for Sun Records, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, James Burton, Mickey Baker and Little Richard. Upon moving to New York
Robert_Quine
Musical artist
Slim, Homesick James, Little Freddie King, Lee Gates, Ernie K-Doe, Bo Diddley, Gregg Allman, Sweet Betty, Guitar Gabriel, Adolphus Bell, Jerry McCain
Ardie_Dean
American singer and actress (born 1942)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Barbra_Streisand
Music venue in California, US
Peppers, George Harrison, The Plimsouls, Wednesday Week, Half Way Home, Bo Diddley, The Outlaws, The Motels, The Blasters, The Ventures, Albert King, New
Palomino Club (North Hollywood)
Palomino_Club_(North_Hollywood)
American jazz-pop singer (born 1935)
Reporter. Retrieved March 29, 2025. Casey, John. "Johnny Mathis takes a final bow at N.J. concert". advocate.com. The Advocate. Retrieved May 19, 2025. "News
Johnny_Mathis
American country singer (1932–2022)
Khouri, Megan Hilty, Jessie Mueller Celebrate 'Patsy & Loretta' at Nashville Bow". Variety. Sodomsky, Sam (January 4, 2021). "Loretta Lynn Announces New Album
Loretta_Lynn
Multimedia franchise by Nintendo
Observatory. Birdo Birdo is a pink, anthropomorphic dinosaur who wears a red bow on her head, and has a round mouth that can fire eggs as projectiles, first
Mario_(franchise)
Broad genre of popular music
Other artists with early rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. Soon rock
Rock_music
American country singer (1932–1963)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Patsy_Cline
American country singer (1942–1998)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Tammy_Wynette
American country musician (1931–2013)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
George_Jones
American country musician (born 1933)
2018. Asker, Jim (May 9, 2017). "No 'Problem': Willie Nelson's New Album Bows at No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved May 10, 2017. Asker, Jim (June 2, 2019).
Willie_Nelson
American jazz singer (1915–1959)
25, 1959). "She Had a Right to Sing the Blues – Billie (Lady Day) Holiday Bows Out". The Pittsburgh Courier (obituary). Vol. 51, no. 30. p. 24 – via Newspapers
Billie_Holiday
American singer, songwriter, and musician (born 1947)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Emmylou_Harris
American rock band
ran into the early morning hours, the band joined center stage and took a bow, with Allman recalling the group's first rehearsal 45 years prior: "I was
The_Allman_Brothers_Band
English heavy metal band
band's Facebook page and fireworks went off as the band took their final bow. The band's final tour was not an easy one, as longstanding tensions between
Black_Sabbath
American musician (born 1950)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Stevie_Wonder
Bobby Johnson Bobby Pinson (RCA Nashville) Bo Diddley Boney M. Bonnie Tyler Boston Symphony Orchestra Bow Wow Wow Bowling for Soup Boyd Tinsley Boy Meets
List_of_RCA_Records_artists
American guitarist (1942–1970)
p. 60. "First Awards Ceremony: Hall of Fame – Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Red Bow". Native American Music Award. Archived from the original on May 13, 2020
Jimi_Hendrix
American country singer (1932–2003)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Johnny_Cash
American musician (1940–1993)
instrument— using drum sticks and a bow borrowed from the band's bass player he proceeded to pluck, bang, and bow the spokes of the bike, producing strange
Frank_Zappa
American jazz musician (1926–1991)
the late Beethoven, the disappearance of the musician into the work is a bow to mortality. It was as if Miles were testifying to all that he had been
Miles_Davis
American country musician (1934–2020)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Charley_Pride
1980 studio album by David Bowie
from Angie Bowie. Musically, it features unusual time signatures and a Bo Diddley-inspired beat. For the title track, the rhythm section took inspiration
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Scary_Monsters_(and_Super_Creeps)
The other inductees this year consist of The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl
1987_in_music
American musical duo
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
The_Everly_Brothers
Music genre
African-American music are easily traced to the griots in West African culture. Bo Diddley made several influential talking records, and the gospel group The Jubalaires'
Hip-hop
American composer and songwriter (1928–2023)
Grappelli Buddy Holly Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Frank Zappa 1998 Bo Diddley The Mills Brothers Roy Orbison Paul Robeson 1999 Johnny Cash Sam Cooke
Burt_Bacharach
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
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English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) : unexplained; possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gördeler (see gurtler 2).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Windley, a place in Derbyshire named from an unattested Old English winn ‘meadow’ + Old English lēah ‘clearing’.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place near Manchester, so named from Old English hind ‘female deer’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a pet form of an unrecorded Old English personal name Dylla, found as the first element in the place names Dillington (in the former Huntingdonshire) and Dilton (in Wiltshire).In some cases, possibly an altered spelling of French Dilly.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name, perhaps from Rugeley, a habitational name from a place so named in Staffordshire.
Boy/Male
Australian, Gaelic, Irish
Fair-haired Courageous One
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Sidley Green in Bexley Hill, Sussex.
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English
English : variant of Riddle.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
From the Linden Tree Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places in West Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire, all named from Old English līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’, from lind ‘lime tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a further possible source of the surname.German : habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh, meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see Linde + Loh).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Dingley, possibly from Middle English dingle ‘hollow’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Boy/Male
Irish
Fair hero.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Ridge Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Compare Aduddell.Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Dittel, from a pet form of a personal name formed with Diet (Germanic theud ‘people’, ‘race’), for example Dietrich.
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English (northern)
English (northern) : variant of Siddall.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from Gidleigh in Devon, so named from an Old English personal name Gydda + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of several places in West Yorkshire, or minor places in Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘midge glade’, from micg(e) ‘midge’ + lēah ‘wood’; ‘clearing’, ‘glade’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : habitational name from Dudley in the West Midlands, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Irish (County Cork) : English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), born at Northampton, England, sailed on the Arbella to Salem, MA, in 1630 with the chief men of the Massachusetts Bay Company. They first settled at Newtown. Dudley subsequently moved to Ipswich but then permanently settled at Roxbury. He was elected four times as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and as one of the two commissioners for the colony when the New England Confederation was formed in 1643. He was one of the first overseers of Harvard University, and in 1650, as governor, signed the charter for that institution. Dudley’s seventh and most noted child, Joseph (1647–1720) was also governor of MA (1702–15).
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Red Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a fiddle player or a nickname for a skilled or enthusiastic amateur, from Old English fiðelere ‘fiddler’.German : variant of Fiedler.
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
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English
English : variant spelling of Coad.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Lion
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, Netherlands, Swedish
Sea of Bitterness; Sea of Sorrow; Beloved
Boy/Male
Biblical
Name of force, name of the strong.
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
King
Boy/Male
Buddhist, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sikh
Gifted
Girl/Female
Biblical
Troubling.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Splendour; Light; Brightness
Boy/Male
Gaelic
Distaff.
Girl/Female
Latin
Of the Iyre, or song.
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
DIDDLEY BOW
v. i.
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
n.
One who piddles.
v. i.
To play on a fiddle.
v. t.
To cheat or overreach.
n.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
a.
Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
imp. & p. p.
of Piddle
v. t.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
a.
Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
n.
One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
imp. & p. p.
of Riddle
v. t.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
v. t.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
n.
One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
n.
One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
n.
One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
imp. & p. p.
of Fiddle
n.
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
n.
A cheat.