word for today: kerfuffle

[hyphenate]

Disarray, chaos, fuck-up

usage: The repugs sure have made a kerfuffle out of our government!

[Arctic Dave]

1. Awesome. Kerfuffle is one of my favorite words. It's fun to say.

[tishaLA]

2. I think it's "diaphanous" cuz

Tim Gunn said it tonight on Project Runway and people don't say it often enough.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. What a kerfuffle!

[tblue]

4. And all along I thought it meant a spat. Wonder if my son should know it for the SATs.

Thanks for enlightening us!

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I don't know-- that word doesn't seem to pack a punch

"Kerfuffle" sounds more like something toddlers might do in their Winnie-the-Pooh underpants.

[Hannah Bell]

6. i thought kerfuffle meant "little dust-up, small conflict or show of anger or upset".

your sentence doesn't sound right.


disturbance: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=define%3A+kerfuffle

or else a band.

[gleaner]

7. I like the word too ....

but I thought it meant a large conflict which was disorganized, involved many and had no tangible or concrete resolution.

I do know however that the Republicans are Klumperfers. It feeds their desire to kerfuffle.