kerfuffle
Meaning of kerfuffle
noun
- a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.
there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship
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’.
Information about kerfuffle
- It is a name.
- The plural form of kerfuffle is: kerfuffles.
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Hyphenation of kerfuffle
ker-fuf-fle
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- kerfuffle is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
kerfuffle synonyms
Meaning disturbance:
disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter
Words that rhyme with kerfuffle
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