skiffle
/ˈskɪf.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
Uncountable
verb
To play skiffle.
Example Sentences
- "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]."
- "As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar trees I see three tiny kids skiffling and shuffling and skittering and scuffling In the leaves"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskɪf.əl/
- British English: /ˈskɪf.əl/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.