Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Kerfuffles?

WHEN I CAME ACROSS this sentence just now, I was pleased to see it; I like new words. And I had to go to the dictionary.
There have been three public kerfuffles over rules violations in recent years.
n
Informal chiefly Brit commotion; disorder; agitation
vb
(tr) Scot to put into disorder or disarray; ruffle or disarrange
[from Scottish curfuffle, carfuffle, from Scottish Gaelic car twist, turn + fuffle to disarrange]

They might have used scuffles instead of kerfuffles.

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