Skiffle (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object), skif·fled, skif·fling.
  1. knob (def. 7).
noun
  1. a jazz style of the 1920s deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, played by bands made up of both standard and improvised instruments.
  2. a style of popular music developed in England during the 1950s, deriving from hillbilly music and rock-'n'-roll, and played on a heterogeneous group of instruments, as guitar, washboard, ceramic jug, washtub, and kazoo.
noun
  1. a style of popular music of the 1950s, played chiefly on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
noun
  1. a drizzle
Skiffle (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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