skiffle 1
/skif"euhl/ , v.t., skiffled, skiffling .
knob (def. 7).
[ perh. akin to SCABBLE ]
skiffle 2
/skif"euhl/ , n.
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.
[ 1920-25; orig. uncert. ]