单词	skiffle
释义	skiffle /ˈskɪf(ə)l / noun [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.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.... A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again. Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz. 2US A style of 1920s and 1930s jazz deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, using both improvised and conventional instruments.Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.... Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat. On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding. Origin 1920s: perhaps imitative. Rhymes piffle, riffle, sniffle, whiffle
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