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CURFUFFLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
to put into disorder or disarray; ruffle or disarrange . Word origin. from Scottish curfuffle, carfuffle, from Scottish Gaelic car twist, turn + fuffle to disarrange.
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CURFUFFLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CURFUFFLE is variant of carfuffle.
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KERFUFFLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of KERFUFFLE is a disturbance or commotion typically caused by a dispute or conflict. How to use kerfuffle in a sentence.
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curfuffle
▪ I. curˈfuffle, v. Sc. [Deriv. of a simple fuffle v. to disorder: the first syllable is perh. Gaelic car twist, bend, turn about; used in combination in car-fhocal quibble, prevarication, car-sh{uacu}il rolling eye, car-tuaitheal wrong turn: cf. the Lowland Sc. curcuddoch, curdoo, curgloff, curjute...
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Curfuffle - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating from 16th-century Scottish dialect and Gaelic "car" meaning twist, the word means a state of disorder or agitation.
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curfuffle, v. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the verb curfuffle is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for curfuffle is from 1583, in the writing of Robert Sempill, ...
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Curfuffle. - Tom Curren @tomcurrenofficial - Instagram
Working on fins and board designs on some right handers. I'm pretty stoked about the way they're working. I hope to test some longer shapes this year.
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After causing a curfuffle over kerfuffle at National Spelling Bee ...
13-year-old Vasundara Govindarajan of Miami start the word with a “c.” It's more commonly spelled kerfuffle, a Scottish Gaelic word meaning commotion or fuss.
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"CURFUFFLE": Noisy commotion over trivial matters - OneLook
verb: Alternative form of kerfuffle [(chiefly Ireland, UK, Commonwealth, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.]
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curfuffle - definition and meaning - Wordnik
from The Century Dictionary. · To disorder; ruffle; dishevel. Also carfuffle, fuffle. · noun The state of being disordered or ruffled; agitation; perturbation.
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curfuffle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
curfuffle · Contents · English · Scots. edit. Verb. edit. curfuffle (third-person singular simple present curfuffles, present participle curfufflin, simple past ...
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kerfuffle
kerfuffle (kəˈfʌf(ə)l) Also kafuffle, kufuffle, gefuffle. [Variant of the Scots curfuffle n. (perh. influenced by ker-?), now the general form in colloquial use.] = curfuffle n.1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 94, I bet it [sc. the domestic row] ended up in a good old kafuffle. 1959 J. Fleming Miss Bone...
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Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
His pamphlet Curfuffle ("The Lifeboat") was selected as Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice 2019.
2020–2021
2020: No award this year
2021: Jerm Curtin
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