‖skoffel, noun2

Origin:: Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch schoffelen, schuffelen to shuffle.

1. A dance of any kind, but especially sakkie-sakkie (noun sense b).

1946 A. Nash in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 632Dance: Skoffel (scuffle-shuffle).

1980 Sunday Times 23 Nov. 29It was time to grab partners for a final ‘skoffel’ around the studio, to the combined music of two bands.

2. combination

skoffel jazz, boeremusiek sense 1.

1990 Weekend Post 8 Dec. 6Some young South Africans today scoff at it (sc. boeremusiek). They call it sakkie-sakkie. Young Afrikaans-speaking people of a ‘worldly’ persuasion call it langarm musiek or ‘Skoffel jazz’.

A dance of any kind, but especially sakkie-sakkie (nounb).

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skoffel, nounn.1skoffel, verbv.

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