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Word: Kerfuffle
Speech Type: Noun
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’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
kəˈfʌfl
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views
Short Definition:commotion
Examples:- there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship
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