kerfuffle
noun/kəˈfʌfl/
/kərˈfʌfl/
[singular] (British English, informal)- unnecessary excitement or activity synonym commotion, fuss
- What’s all the kerfuffle about?
Word Originearly 19th cent.: 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 on the go
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