Get to know Kerfuffle better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like disturbance or disruption.
Kerfuffle meaning
A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
Synonyms of Kerfuffle
Using Kerfuffle
- The main meaning on this page is: A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
- Useful related words include: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter.
- In the example corpus, kerfuffle often appears in combinations such as: the kerfuffle, kerfuffle over, kerfuffle in.
Context around Kerfuffle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 4 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kerfuffle
- In this selection, "kerfuffle" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hour, minor, mccoys, guyanese and involving stand out and add context to how "kerfuffle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mild kerfuffle because they and a minor kerfuffle but nothing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kerfuffle" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kerfuffle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That kerfuffle did not deter others, however. (7 words)
Mightn't it just be a continuance of the Hatfields & McCoys kerfuffle? (12 words)
Not to minimize the Castle kerfuffle, it could have been worse I suppose. (13 words)
Before the sport, Jokic shared a heat pregame hug — and the basketball — with Ishbia after a Forty eighth-hour kerfuffle over a free ball in Phoenix resulted in a technical foul and a $25,000 effective for the Nuggets large man. (41 words)
However, the author of "Diana: Her True Story" believes that the two brothers will "survive this" This is not the first time "there is some kind of kerfuffle" in the royal family. (32 words)
At first glance, it is puzzling that someone at the center of such a public kerfuffle would seek to recreate the very conditions that landed her there, and on a bigger scale. (32 words)
Mightn't it just be a continuance of the Hatfields & McCoys kerfuffle? (12 words)
But back to the “your generation has it better than mine” kerfuffle: Is it true that Millennials got the rawest deal? (21 words)
For all the kerfuffle over the original ending (was that really seven years ago? (14 words)
Example sentences (15)
Before the sport, Jokic shared a heat pregame hug — and the basketball — with Ishbia after a Forty eighth-hour kerfuffle over a free ball in Phoenix resulted in a technical foul and a $25,000 effective for the Nuggets large man.
It is why President Alistair Routledge of Exxon smirks and comes up with one hocus pocus after another to kerfuffle Guyanese over any contract change.
That kerfuffle did not deter others, however.
The debate seemed innocuous—a minor kerfuffle, but nothing that couldn’t be resolved and moved on from.
A source said Andrew took the kerfuffle in good humour and laughed as the dog's mortified owner sprinted to retrieve it.
Mightn't it just be a continuance of the Hatfields & McCoys kerfuffle?
Really just an observation, as if the past councillors would have followed proper protocol, then perhaps there would not be all the kerfuffle with the present councillors.
However, the author of "Diana: Her True Story" believes that the two brothers will "survive this" This is not the first time "there is some kind of kerfuffle" in the royal family.
At first glance, it is puzzling that someone at the center of such a public kerfuffle would seek to recreate the very conditions that landed her there, and on a bigger scale.
But back to the “your generation has it better than mine” kerfuffle: Is it true that Millennials got the rawest deal?
For all the kerfuffle over the original ending (was that really seven years ago?
This whole kerfuffle will move us a little further along in our national race to the bottom.
Earlier this year, programmers at the Cannes Film Festival found themselves in a mild kerfuffle because they to their esteemed festival.
Know what’s really important about the latest mini-kerfuffle involving Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and catcher Yadier Molina?
Not to minimize the Castle kerfuffle, it could have been worse I suppose.
Common combinations with kerfuffle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the kerfuffle 3×
- kerfuffle over 2×
- kerfuffle in 2×