Synonym: commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, to-do. Similar words: muffle, ruffle, muffled, shuffle, scuffle, unruffled, perfume, baffle. Meaning: [kə(r)'fʌfl] 
n. a disorderly outburst or tumult.
n. a disorderly outburst or tumult. 
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1. Her glasses were broken in the kerfuffle.
2. There was a bit of a kerfuffle during the race when a dog impeded the leading runners.
3. What's all the kerfuffle about?
4. What's all the kerfuffle?
5. To start with I'll define kerfuffle.
6. A minor diplomatic kerfuffle ensued as it turned out the cream was being illegally imported from Vietnam.
7. MARKETING men reckon the kerfuffle over Barack Obama's beloved BlackBerry has been worth something like $50m in free publicity to Research In Motion(Sentence dictionary), the iconic smartphone's Canadian maker.
8. In the kerfuffle, I think some of them got lost.
9. Amid all the kerfuffle around Kosovo's declaration of independence, few have paused to note what an extraordinary document it is.
10. Instead, this kerfuffle once again shows how hard it is to correctly estimate usage numbers on the web, especially in the absence of any real standards.
11. But the lifecycle for a blog-related kerfuffle is a few days in general, and the blogosphere as a whole has an extreme attention deficit disorder.
12. The film caused a kerfuffle in India with its voyeuristic storyline and CCTV footage of a couple writhing on the floor.
13. Dell raised a kerfuffle with the Better Business Bureau's advertising division over a claim in a 2008 Apple commercial touting "the world's greenest family of notebooks."
14. Indeed, Microsoft's reaction to the entire Open Kinect kerfuffle seems to be: Nothing to see here.
15. KFC's president publicly apologized for the ' kerfuffle. ' But KFC says the grilled chicken launch and its campaign were successful.
16. This week, apparently undented by the gay-pride kerfuffle, business was brisk.
17. When I first went to look it up I wasn't sure if it was gerfuffle or kerfuffle and it turns out that this "informal" nature of the word was what led me to this confusion.
18. If you look back at the different spellings of kerfuffle over the years it makes for a bit of a kerfuffle itself.
19. There is no reason to think that the current kerfuffle will impact SJM's existing businesses over the near term.
20. It in turn is said to derive from a word first seen 50 years before that, not kerfuffle but simply fuffle; also meaning "to throw into disorder."
More similar words: muffle, ruffle, muffled, shuffle, scuffle, unruffled, perfume, baffle, waffle, cheerful, powerful, baffled, sniffle, subterfuge, wonderful, powerfully, cheerfully, perfunctory, bafflement, perfunctorily, suffer from, for fun, darfur, fearful, colorful, fearfully, afflict, baffling, afflatus, effluent.