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   kerfuffle

   /kəˈfʌfl/

   noun

   • 1. a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views: informal British "there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship"

   Word Origin 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’.

   Scrabble Points: 22

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