kerfuffle

Meaning of kerfuffle

noun
  1. 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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