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Meaning of kerfuffle in English
Pronunciation
/kərˈfəfəl/
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Noun
kerfuffle
Etymology
early 19th century: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to disorder’), or related to Irish cior thual‘confusion, disorder’
Definitions
1.
a disorderly outburst or tumult
Examples
« they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused »