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单词 skiffle
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Definition of skiffle in English:

skiffle

noun ˈskɪf(ə)lˈskɪfəl
mass noun
  • 1British 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:

skiffle

nounˈskifəlˈskɪfəl
  • 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.

 
 
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