skifflen.

/ˈskɪf(ə)l/

Etymology: Origin unknown.

Originally U.S.

1. Formerly (U.S.), a style of jazz music popular at rent parties, deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, and played on standard and improvised instruments. Later, a form of popular music developed from this in the 1950s (esp. in the United Kingdom), in which the vocal part is supported by a rhythmic accompaniment of guitars or banjos and other more or less conventional instruments; a song written in this style. Cf. washboard n.

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skiffle1926

skiffle music1948

1926 (title of jazz piece) Chicago skiffle.

1930 Paramount Dealers' List Apr. 2/1 12886—Home Town Skiffle—Part I. Descriptive Novelty—All Star.

1946 in Carey & McCarthy Jazz Directory (1949) 167 Dan Burley and his Skiffle Boys..Skiffle Blues.

1948 N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 2/7 Fletcher insisted on looking over the Skiffler's shoulder trying to dig the riffle that make the skiffle.

1957 Times 3 May 13/4 Earnest young women will not consent to hear even skiffle, unless they are sure of the reverberation factor of the sitting room.

1959 Times 27 June 7/3 Skiffle is a form of Do it Yourself that depends entirely on song and has the supreme merit of persuading its devotees to make music for themselves.

1966 P. J. Kavanagh Perfect Stranger xiv. 199 It was the age of skiffle but the ethos had reached Djakarta before the technique.

1973 J. Marks Mick Jagger (1974) 55 Chris Barber and Ken Colyer were the leaders of the skiffle movement. I was with the very first Barber–Colyer Skiffle Band, and when they split up, I left because I didn't actually enjoy skiffle.

1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 124 603/2 One of the most cheering things that came out of skiffle was the fact that it got children singing, because they sang in groups.

2. U.S. Black English. = rent party n. at rent n.¹ Compounds 2 (Perhaps the original sense.)

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society > leisure > social event > fund-raising events > [noun] > rent party

parlour social1883

house party1923

house rent party1925

rent party1925

stomp1926

boogie1929

shake1946

skiffle1946

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > musical session

session1927

jam1929

jam session1929

clambake1937

skiffle1946

bash1949

blow1962

open mike1978

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 303 The great South Side institution of ‘rent party’ (locally known as ‘skiffle’, ‘shake’, or ‘percolator’).

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz 126 You could always get together and charge a few coins and have a skiffle... The money paid the rent.

1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 141 In Chicago, these parties were called a ‘parlour social’, ‘gouge’, ‘struggle’, ‘percolator’, ‘too terrible party’, or the ‘skiffle’.

3. General attributive uses.

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skiffle1946

1946 [see sense 1].

1948 Record Changer Aug. 5 Dan Burley, the skiffle man, is now a disc jockey.

1953 Melody Maker 19 Sept. 15/2 Club Calendar... London Jazz Club... Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen, every Monday, with skiffle party.

1957 Universe 30 Aug. 8/3 There were lots of children's playclothes..‘skiffle out~fits’ of jersey and jeans.

1965 G. Melly Owning-up xi. 135 He [sc. Ken Colyer] called these interludes ‘Skiffle Sessions’, to differentiate them from the more serious activity of playing blues, rags, [etc.].

Compounds

General attributive.

skiffle band n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1957 Sing Out! Spring 30 In the first decade of the 20th Century, these New Orleans boys called themselves a ‘Skiffle’ band.

1981 Washington Post 8 Jan. dc7 The Sun~shine Skiffle Band..has become a favorite at area folk festivals.

skiffle group n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > small band or pop group

group1927

combination1928

combo1935

skiffle group1953

pop group1963

supergroup1968

rap group1969

garage band1974

hair band1989

popular beat combo1990

covers band1991

1953 Melody Maker 10 Oct. 15/1 London Jazz Club..Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen and Skiffle Group.

1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love 215 A skiffle group—consisting of two guitarists, a thimble~fingered drummer with a wooden washboard, and a man sweeping a carpet-brush rhythmically over three metal strings drawn taut across a saucepan.

1976 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 25 Dec. 7/8 The ‘Vipers’ comprise five well-known artistes in their own right who get together to form a skiffle group.

skiffle music n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > skiffle

skiffle1926

skiffle music1948

1948 Record Changer June 5/2 The Jazz Room..will feature only the best of jazz and opening night featured..Freddy Moore, Kansas Fields, Dan Burley and his skiffle music.

1958 J. Asman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xiv. 173 The phenomenon of skiffle music, peculiar only to Britain as yet, is well under way.

1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 73/2 Lonnie Donnegan was already a veteran performer in England when, in 1961, his recording of ‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?’ introduced skiffle music to America.

Derivatives

ˈskiffler n. one who plays skiffle; a devotee of skiffle.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician > types of

hard rocker1942

bebopper1946

skiffler1948

bopper1951

rock 'n' roller1955

rockabilly1956

rock star1957

rocker1958

rock idol1958

rockster1960

funkster1963

country rocker1964

punk rocker1972

punk1976

punkster1976

cock-rocker1977

MC1979

rapper1979

thrasher1979

New Romantic1980

prog rocker1980

neo-punk1981

pomp rocker1981

rapster1981

rockist1981

hip-hopper1982

scratcher1982

skanker1983

pop tart1984

trash rocker1984

techno-head1985

Goth1986

Britpopper1989

gangsta1989

gangster rapper1989

popstrel1989

gangsta rapper1990

house-head1990

grunger1991

shoegazer1991

junglist1992

trip-hopper1993

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > of specific types of jazz

modernist1932

icky1937

ick1942

mouldy fig1945

bebopper1946

skiffler1948

traditionalist1949

bopper1951

West Coaster1954

soulster1961

folkie1966

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop

hard rocker1942

skiffler1948

rock fan1959

rocker1963

discomaniac1966

Deadhead1971

punk rocker1972

punker1973

punkette1974

Krautrocker1976

punk1976

punk fan1976

punkster1976

new waver1977

soulie1978

post-punk1979

New Romantic1980

headbanger1981

skanker1983

grebo1987

old schooler1990

shoegazer1991

technoid1992

thrasher1992

gabba1995

1948 N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 3/2 The skiffler's Club is one in which members control the titles of records selected for such programs.

1956 Observer 21 Oct. 13/3 The clientele whom the skifflers serve are almost wholly under-thirty, non-drinkers.., mainly middle-class.

1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 21 Anybody with floppy hair, a pair of tight jeans and a cheap guitar can be a skiffler in three easy lessons.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	skiffle
释义	skifflen. /ˈskɪf(ə)l/ Etymology: Origin unknown. Originally U.S. 1. Formerly (U.S.), a style of jazz music popular at rent parties, deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, and played on standard and improvised instruments. Later, a form of popular music developed from this in the 1950s (esp. in the United Kingdom), in which the vocal part is supported by a rhythmic accompaniment of guitars or banjos and other more or less conventional instruments; a song written in this style. Cf. washboard n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > skiffle skiffle1926 skiffle music1948 1926 (title of jazz piece) Chicago skiffle. 1930 Paramount Dealers' List Apr. 2/1 12886—Home Town Skiffle—Part I. Descriptive Novelty—All Star. 1946 in Carey & McCarthy Jazz Directory (1949) 167 Dan Burley and his Skiffle Boys..Skiffle Blues. 1948 N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 2/7 Fletcher insisted on looking over the Skiffler's shoulder trying to dig the riffle that make the skiffle. 1957 Times 3 May 13/4 Earnest young women will not consent to hear even skiffle, unless they are sure of the reverberation factor of the sitting room. 1959 Times 27 June 7/3 Skiffle is a form of Do it Yourself that depends entirely on song and has the supreme merit of persuading its devotees to make music for themselves. 1966 P. J. Kavanagh Perfect Stranger xiv. 199 It was the age of skiffle but the ethos had reached Djakarta before the technique. 1973 J. Marks Mick Jagger (1974) 55 Chris Barber and Ken Colyer were the leaders of the skiffle movement. I was with the very first Barber–Colyer Skiffle Band, and when they split up, I left because I didn't actually enjoy skiffle. 1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 124 603/2 One of the most cheering things that came out of skiffle was the fact that it got children singing, because they sang in groups. 2. U.S. Black English. = rent party n. at rent n.¹ Compounds 2 (Perhaps the original sense.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > fund-raising events > [noun] > rent party parlour social1883 house party1923 house rent party1925 rent party1925 stomp1926 boogie1929 shake1946 skiffle1946 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > musical session session1927 jam1929 jam session1929 clambake1937 skiffle1946 bash1949 blow1962 open mike1978 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 303 The great South Side institution of ‘rent party’ (locally known as ‘skiffle’, ‘shake’, or ‘percolator’). 1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz 126 You could always get together and charge a few coins and have a skiffle... The money paid the rent. 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 141 In Chicago, these parties were called a ‘parlour social’, ‘gouge’, ‘struggle’, ‘percolator’, ‘too terrible party’, or the ‘skiffle’. 3. General attributive uses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > skiffle skiffle1946 1946 [see sense 1]. 1948 Record Changer Aug. 5 Dan Burley, the skiffle man, is now a disc jockey. 1953 Melody Maker 19 Sept. 15/2 Club Calendar... London Jazz Club... Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen, every Monday, with skiffle party. 1957 Universe 30 Aug. 8/3 There were lots of children's playclothes..‘skiffle out~fits’ of jersey and jeans. 1965 G. Melly Owning-up xi. 135 He [sc. Ken Colyer] called these interludes ‘Skiffle Sessions’, to differentiate them from the more serious activity of playing blues, rags, [etc.]. Compounds General attributive. skiffle band n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1957 Sing Out! Spring 30 In the first decade of the 20th Century, these New Orleans boys called themselves a ‘Skiffle’ band. 1981 Washington Post 8 Jan. dc7 The Sun~shine Skiffle Band..has become a favorite at area folk festivals. skiffle group n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > small band or pop group group1927 combination1928 combo1935 skiffle group1953 pop group1963 supergroup1968 rap group1969 garage band1974 hair band1989 popular beat combo1990 covers band1991 1953 Melody Maker 10 Oct. 15/1 London Jazz Club..Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen and Skiffle Group. 1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love 215 A skiffle group—consisting of two guitarists, a thimble~fingered drummer with a wooden washboard, and a man sweeping a carpet-brush rhythmically over three metal strings drawn taut across a saucepan. 1976 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 25 Dec. 7/8 The ‘Vipers’ comprise five well-known artistes in their own right who get together to form a skiffle group. skiffle music n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > skiffle skiffle1926 skiffle music1948 1948 Record Changer June 5/2 The Jazz Room..will feature only the best of jazz and opening night featured..Freddy Moore, Kansas Fields, Dan Burley and his skiffle music. 1958 J. Asman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xiv. 173 The phenomenon of skiffle music, peculiar only to Britain as yet, is well under way. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 73/2 Lonnie Donnegan was already a veteran performer in England when, in 1961, his recording of ‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?’ introduced skiffle music to America. Derivatives ˈskiffler n. one who plays skiffle; a devotee of skiffle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician > types of hard rocker1942 bebopper1946 skiffler1948 bopper1951 rock 'n' roller1955 rockabilly1956 rock star1957 rocker1958 rock idol1958 rockster1960 funkster1963 country rocker1964 punk rocker1972 punk1976 punkster1976 cock-rocker1977 MC1979 rapper1979 thrasher1979 New Romantic1980 prog rocker1980 neo-punk1981 pomp rocker1981 rapster1981 rockist1981 hip-hopper1982 scratcher1982 skanker1983 pop tart1984 trash rocker1984 techno-head1985 Goth1986 Britpopper1989 gangsta1989 gangster rapper1989 popstrel1989 gangsta rapper1990 house-head1990 grunger1991 shoegazer1991 junglist1992 trip-hopper1993 society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > of specific types of jazz modernist1932 icky1937 ick1942 mouldy fig1945 bebopper1946 skiffler1948 traditionalist1949 bopper1951 West Coaster1954 soulster1961 folkie1966 society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop hard rocker1942 skiffler1948 rock fan1959 rocker1963 discomaniac1966 Deadhead1971 punk rocker1972 punker1973 punkette1974 Krautrocker1976 punk1976 punk fan1976 punkster1976 new waver1977 soulie1978 post-punk1979 New Romantic1980 headbanger1981 skanker1983 grebo1987 old schooler1990 shoegazer1991 technoid1992 thrasher1992 gabba1995 1948 N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 3/2 The skiffler's Club is one in which members control the titles of records selected for such programs. 1956 Observer 21 Oct. 13/3 The clientele whom the skifflers serve are almost wholly under-thirty, non-drinkers.., mainly middle-class. 1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 21 Anybody with floppy hair, a pair of tight jeans and a cheap guitar can be a skiffler in three easy lessons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021). skifflev. /ˈskɪf(ə)l/ Etymology: < skiffle n. intransitive. To play skiffle music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > perform specific type of music serenade1671 prelude1680 fugue1783 pastoralize1828 preludize1829 symphonize1833 ran-tan1866 counterpoint1875 rag1896 ragtime1908 jazz1916 rock1931 jivec1938 bop1947 blow1949 rock-and-roll1956 skiffle1957 hip-hop1983 1957 Observer 15 Dec. 7/4 Gay shirts for the boys who skiffle and rock 'n' roll are equally hard to discover. 1974 Times 9 Jan. 12/7 That was the time when..those who did not rock skiffled away merrily. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1926v.1957
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skifflen.

Compounds

Derivatives

skifflev.