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Definition of Skiffle
1. Noun. A style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Skiffle
1. Noun. A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skiffle
1. to play a particular style of music [v -FLED, -FLING, -FLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skiffle
Literary usage of Skiffle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"My £od-eire's name, I'll tell you, Woe In-axd-tHn skiffle, aiid a weaver he was,
And it did fit bis craft ; for во his ..."
2. Proceedings by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1874)
"... as applied to oxen Skiff-handed adj. awkward skiffle «. as to make a skiffle,
to make a mess of any business ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"In a skiffle (tailors), in a great hurry. In a tin-pot way (popular), in a small,
inferior, trifling manner. I light my long pipe and I sit up in bed' and ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1850)
"We remember us of more than one church-gossip, such as is described below : ' I
WISH you could see old Mrs. skiffle, the gossip of the congregation, ..."
5. York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts Or Mysteries of York on the by Lucy Toulmin Smith (1885)
"... full sone I My skiffle come to scathe. \ My bale for to brewe, ( Tille hym
f>er brought one a ..."
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