skiffle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈskɪf.əl/    美 /ˈskɪf.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments. uncountable
    — 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 .
  2. Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.
动词 v.
  1. To play skiffle.
  2. To move in a way that stirs up and moves anything loose lying on the surface.
    — As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar trees I see three tiny kids skiffling and shuffling and skittering and scuffling In the leaves

词形变化

skiffles present,singular,third-person skiffling participle,present skiffled participle,past skiffled past skiffles plural skiffles present,singular,third-person skiffling participle,present skiffled participle,past skiffled past

词源

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”).
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