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kerfuffle

[ ker-fuhf-uhl ]

noun

  1. Informal. a fuss; commotion.


kerfuffle

/ °ìəˈ´ÚÊŒ´ÚÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. informal.
    commotion; 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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˜yÐÄvlog 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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kerfuffle1

from Scottish curfuffle, carfuffle, from Scottish Gaelic car twist, turn + fuffle to disarrange
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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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Then came an odd kerfuffle over who might have called whom: The Trump team let it be known there had been a congratulatory phone call, but the Kremlin then denied news reports of it.

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The kerfuffle represented a much larger divide within the party.

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