Meaning of skiffle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
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2. Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).

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Examples

“The cats and the bats—and I hope you dig that one about the bats—played like mad in the backbeat 12, skiffling and skuffling , trying to get under the wire .”

“In Liverpool, the Quarrymen were one group of teenage Donegan admirers, but there were plenty of others: the Martinis, the Raving Texans, the Bluegenes and the Blackjacks—all skiffling their hearts out .”

“They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening.”

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.”

“This is when hardy divers such as American mergansers, goldeneyes, buffleheads, and scaup pay my lake a late staging visit, bobbing on the last patches of open water against the season's first skiffles of snow. Gradually the nights get [colder].”

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