kerfuffle
IPA: kɝfˈʌfʌɫ
noun
- (chiefly Commonwealth, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
verb
- (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Canada, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.
Examples of "kerfuffle" in Sentences
- The school kerfuffle did the same.
- This is a very unfortunate kerfuffle.
- Let's hope that's the end of this kerfuffle.
- This latest kerfuffle is entirely pointless.
- Probably not worth the kerfuffle in that case.
- There is no parallel with the Siegenthaler kerfuffle.
- Invariably there is some background kerfuffle in there.
- And it would sure be the easiest solution to this kerfuffle.
- Getting him in is not really a kerfuffle. Getting him out isn't a kerfuffle.
- This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.
- Blue: “This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.”
- My mate Steve the plumber dared me to get the word "kerfuffle" into my analysis, which I thought was very funny.
- Lost in the discussion over the New York Times/SWIFT kerfuffle is the history of the Times and national security.
- Second, truepenny, triggered by but tangential to the current death-of-short-fiction kerfuffle, is talking about what short stories are good for.
- The kerfuffle is leaving me cold, I'll admit: I'm a small-r republican, and would like us to shed the last of our feudal, imperial shackles, lightly-worn though they be.
- So I think the Stone Age kerfuffle is worth pushing on, especially since some of the "crucial information" that you identified rubs up against Nagin's need to be more transparent.
- Way up there Steve Sailer said that this kerfuffle is made for a lot of whites to engage in moral preening about wonderfully sophisticately sensitive they are compared to other whites, who are so deplorable.
- Update: Btw, the politically important feature of this kerfuffle is McCain's confusion -- not knowing how many houses he owns -- rather than the fact that he is rich (by virtue of his wife's inherited wealth).