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词汇 kerfuffle
释义 kerfuffle
noun[ S ]
UKinformaluk /kəˈfʌf.əl/ us /kɚˈfʌf.əl/
noise, excitement, and argument: 吵闹;混乱,骚动
Her glasses were broken in the kerfuffle.混乱之中她的眼镜打碎了。
Synonyms
ballyhooold-fashionedslang
commotion
disturbance
hoo-hainformal
hoopla(EXCITEMENT)mainly US
to-doinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Noise & noisy
abuzz
bang something out
barky
bash something out
blast
boisterously
brouhaha
cacophony
clatter
disturbance
explosive
loudly
noisy
rackety
resonant
ring out
ring with something
rowdily
rowdiness
strident

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Arguments & disagreements

Examples of kerfuffle


kerfuffle
They seem to have forgotten that in all the kerfuffle today, but it is another thing that they must be very proud of.
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Allow me also to say one thing about the issue that has created some kerfuffle, namely voting rights.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
A kerfuffle was made about the reasoned amendment.
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All the kerfuffle, the shouting and the fuss from them amounts to one thing—they are trying to cover up their record.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We had an awful constitutional kerfuffle to decide whether we would be in order in asking for 10,000 sq.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We have all this great kerfuffle over one year—reducing the age from 21 to 20.
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There was a tremendous kerfuffle.
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He is absolutely kerfuffled with figures here.
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She realizes she has neglected the child during this brief kerfuffle, and dashes back to her berth to check on him.
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Troy returns to a scene of chaos with the troll doll, having been knocked from the table during the kerfuffle, staring directly at him from amidst the flames.
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