skiffle /ˈskɪf.əl/noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.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 •Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”). verb2 •To play skiffle. •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 — 2016 formsskiffled · skiffling · skiffles
