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skiffles

skiffles is the plural of skiffle.

Meaning of skiffle

Noun (1)

skiffle (uncountable)

  1. 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, Negro Digest - Volume 2, page 47

Noun (2)

skiffle (plural skiffles)

  1. Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.
    Synonyms:
    skiff

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Questions about skiffles

What is skiffles the plural of?
Skiffles is the plural of skiffle.

Words near skiffles in the dictionary

  1. skiffing
  2. skiffle
  3. skiffled
  4. skiffler
  5. skifflers
  6. skiffles
  7. skiffless
  8. skifflike
  9. skiffling
  10. skiffs
  11. skiffy

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