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Definition of skiffle in English: skifflenoun ˈskɪf(ə)lˈskɪfəl mass noun1British 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. 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. 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: skifflenounˈskifəlˈskɪfəl 1US (in the US) a style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments. 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. 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. |