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kerfuffle

[ker-fuhf-uhl]

noun

  1. Informal.a fuss; commotion.



kerfuffle

/ əˈʌə /

noun

  1. informalcommotion; disorder; agitation

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to put into disorder or disarray; ruffle or disarrange

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kerfuffle1

First recorded in 1945–50; from Scots curfuffle, from cur- (from Scottish Gaelic car “a turn,” from Old Irish cor ) + fuffle “to disorder, confuse” (of imitative origin)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kerfuffle1

from Scottish curfuffle, carfuffle, from Scottish Gaelic car twist, turn + fuffle to disarrange
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There was the kerfuffle over his non-availability for the Zimbabwe Test.

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Hudson seemed to brace herself in December for something like this current kerfuffle, writing on her Instagram Stories: “Nothing changed for us in 2024 except for ‘public knowledge’: yet, somehow everything changed.

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That was on display when Gallego sat for an interview with the Arizona Daily Star, released after his club kerfuffle.

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Dan’s sentiments may feel like a common and perhaps tired chorus in many stories that have been written and re-written about the return-to-office kerfuffle: Workers got used to a new way of working.

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They need the money to buy spectacles for a friend who lost his in a kerfuffle with a turkey.

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