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kerfluff en · NOUN

Etymology

Alteration of kerfuffle, possibly influenced by fluff.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural, uncommon) Synonym of kerfuffle.
    • If a kerfluff missile strike (with advance heads up to the strikees) is your idea of what makes a successful president, you must be giddy (along with those other things you are). 2017 April 11, “Here We Mar A Lago Again - Politics and Other Controversies”, in city-data (Usenet):
    • After a fine record of doing chores up North, conscientious Roly and Poly fall out of Santa's sled on Christmas Eve and land ""kerfluff"" in snowy wilds. 1952, Dorothy Sherrill, The Santa Claus Bears:
    • And a tough neighborhood, it was, too. irate Mars, and sexually explicit Venus, the kerfluff of a moody moon, and self-important stars. 2016, D. S. Martin, The Turning Aside, →ISBN:

Synonyms

kerfuffle