Definition of skiffle in English:

skiffle

noun ˈskɪf(ə)lˈskɪfəl

mass noun

1British A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavour that was popular in the 1950s, played by a small group and often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards.
〈英〉噪音民间乐（20世纪50年代流行的一种具有勃鲁斯或爵士乐风味的民间音乐，由一小群人演奏，常包括洗衣板等即兴乐器）
Example sentencesExamples
- A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
- He was in a school skiffle band at first.
- The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band.
- As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
- In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen.
- The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier.
- The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
- From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s.
- When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted.
- Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s.
- He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
- The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain.
- Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time.
- When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play.
- We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle.
- Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz.
- They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then.
- You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group.
- Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace.
2US A style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments.
〈美〉噪音爵士乐（20世纪20至30年代的爵士乐，源于布鲁斯、雷格泰姆和民间音乐，即兴乐器和传统乐器并用）
Example sentencesExamples
- Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
- On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding.
- Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat.

Origin

1920s: perhaps imitative.

Rhymes

piffle, riffle, sniffle, whiffle

Definition of skiffle in US English:

skiffle

nounˈskifəlˈskɪfəl

1US (in the US) a style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments.
〈美〉噪音爵士乐（20世纪20至30年代的爵士乐，源于布鲁斯、雷格泰姆和民间音乐，即兴乐器和传统乐器并用）
Example sentencesExamples
- Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat.
- Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
- On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding.
2British A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavor that was popular in the 1950s, played by a small group and often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards.
〈英〉噪音民间乐（20世纪50年代流行的一种具有勃鲁斯或爵士乐风味的民间音乐，由一小群人演奏，常包括洗衣板等即兴乐器）
Example sentencesExamples
- Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s.
- Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace.
- As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
- When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play.
- He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
- A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
- The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain.
- We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle.
- The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band.
- In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen.
- He was in a school skiffle band at first.
- You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group.
- The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
- The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier.
- When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted.
- From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s.
- Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz.
- They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then.
- Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time.

Origin

1920s: perhaps imitative.

单词	skiffle
释义	Definition of skiffle in English: skiffle noun ˈskɪf(ə)lˈskɪfəl mass noun 1British A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavour that was popular in the 1950s, played by a small group and often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards. 〈英〉噪音民间乐（20世纪50年代流行的一种具有勃鲁斯或爵士乐风味的民间音乐，由一小群人演奏，常包括洗衣板等即兴乐器） Example sentencesExamples A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again. He was in a school skiffle band at first. The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band. As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups. In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen. The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier. The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday. From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s. When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted. Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s. He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group. The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain. Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time. When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play. We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle. Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz. They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then. You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group. Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace. 2US A style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments. 〈美〉噪音爵士乐（20世纪20至30年代的爵士乐，源于布鲁斯、雷格泰姆和民间音乐，即兴乐器和传统乐器并用） Example sentencesExamples Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle. On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding. Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat. Origin 1920s: perhaps imitative. Rhymes piffle, riffle, sniffle, whiffle Definition of skiffle in US English: skiffle nounˈskifəlˈskɪfəl 1US (in the US) a style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments. 〈美〉噪音爵士乐（20世纪20至30年代的爵士乐，源于布鲁斯、雷格泰姆和民间音乐，即兴乐器和传统乐器并用） Example sentencesExamples Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat. Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle. On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding. 2British A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavor that was popular in the 1950s, played by a small group and often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards. 〈英〉噪音民间乐（20世纪50年代流行的一种具有勃鲁斯或爵士乐风味的民间音乐，由一小群人演奏，常包括洗衣板等即兴乐器） Example sentencesExamples Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s. Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace. As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups. When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play. He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group. A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again. The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain. We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle. The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band. In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen. He was in a school skiffle band at first. You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group. The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday. The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier. When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted. From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s. Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz. They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then. Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time. Origin 1920s: perhaps imitative.
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