kerfuffle
noun /kəˈfʌfl/
/kərˈfʌfl/
[singular] (British English, informal)- unnecessary excitement or activity
synonym commotion, fuss(不必要的)骚动,混乱,喧闹 - What’s all the kerfuffle about?
这乱哄哄的是怎么回事?
词源early 19th cent.: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car ‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to disorder’), or related to Irish cior thual ‘confusion, disorder’. - What’s all the kerfuffle about?