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kerfuffle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kerfuffle has 1 sense
- kerfuffle(n = noun.state) commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, to-do - a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" is a kind of disorder
has particulars: convulsion, turmoil, upheaval, earthquake, incident, splash, stir, storm, tempest, storm center, storm centre, garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kerfuffle, n. esp. Brit. colloq. a fuss or commotion.
Etymology
Sc. curfuffle f. fuffle to disorder: imit.
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