Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A to-do or fuss.
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- noun A
disorderly outburst ,disturbance ,commotion ortumult .
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- noun a disorderly outburst or tumult
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My mate Steve the plumber dared me to get the word "kerfuffle" into my analysis, which I thought was very funny.
I was there at the birth of Sky Sports – and what a kerfuffle | David James 2011
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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.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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Blue: “This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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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.
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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).
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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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).
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Second, truepenny, triggered by but tangential to the current death-of-short-fiction kerfuffle, is talking about what short stories are good for.
it is not my intention to be fulsome, but i confess-- i covet your skull netcurmudgeon 2007
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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.
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Lost in the discussion over the New York Times/SWIFT kerfuffle is the history of the Times and national security.
Waldo Jaquith - Case brief: New York Times Co. v. United States. 2006
arby commented on the word kerfuffle
Also spelled kerfluffle, but I prefer this spelling.
July 18, 2007
garyth123 commented on the word kerfuffle
as heard on Little Britain
December 10, 2008
lbutlr commented on the word kerfuffle
A kerfuffle implies something of little importance; a conflict that can be ignored as inconsequential. The use of the word is dismissive of the underlying conflict.
July 14, 2009
lexylou commented on the word kerfuffle
if kerfuffle implies a dust-up, then kerfluffle implies a dust-up involving pillows.
August 6, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word kerfuffle
What about a nerfuffle?
August 6, 2009
reesetee commented on the word kerfuffle
Or it could be a dust-up involving this.
August 6, 2009
blueburner commented on the word kerfuffle
How would you profile the person who uses the word kerfuffle?
January 1, 2014
bilby commented on the word kerfuffle
If they could successfully pronounce cythrwfl, I'd call them brilliant.
January 1, 2014