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gefuffle
gefuffle (gəˈfʌf(ə)l) Altered form, occasionally found, of curfuffle, kerfuffle.1943 B. J. Hurren Eastern Med. ii. 32 The gefuffle created in the search for this stick was unbelievable. 1959 J. Verney Friday's Tunnel xxvi. 234 He made such a gefuffle of safety precautions and locked doors I couldn't...
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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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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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