noun
skiffle
Skiffle (noun) means a style of folk music touched by jazz and blues, played on homemade or makeshift instruments.
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A style of folk music touched by jazz and blues, played on homemade or makeshift instruments.
"They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening."
— Matt Haskins, What Time Are We On? (2021)
"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 ."
— Negro Digest - Volume 2 (1943)
"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 ."
— Patrick Humphries, Lonnie Donegan and the Birth of British Rock & Roll (2012)
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"skiffle" (noun) means a style of folk music touched by jazz and blues, played on homemade or makeshift instruments.
