skiffle

Meanings

1. A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.

1. To play skiffle.

1. Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).

1. To move in a way that stirs up and moves anything loose lying on the surface.

Etymology

From or related to Scots skiffle, from skiff (whence English skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”), which see for more). Related to skift (“light dusting of snow”).