Noun: skiffle
| Singular | skiffle |
| Plural | skiffles |
Sample Sentences
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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 . [1943, Negro Digest - Volume 2, page 47:]
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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 . [2012, Patrick Humphries, Lonnie Donegan and the Birth of British Rock & Roll:]
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They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening. [2021, Matt Haskins, What Time Are We On?:]
Nouns inflected like skiffle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From or related to Scots skiffle, from skiff (whence English skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”), which see for more). Related to skift (“light dusting of snow”). See: English Nouns '
skiff'.