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kerfuffle /kəˈfʌf(ə)l/
▶noun Brit. informal a commotion or fuss.
– origin C19: perh. from Scots curfuffle (prob. from Sc. Gaelic car ‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to disorder’), or rel. to Ir. cior thual ‘confusion, disorder’.
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