单词 | kerfuffle |
释义 | ker·fuf·fle (kûr-fŭfəl) n. Informal A to-do or fuss: "Among the oldest corpses from which readable DNA has been extracted is a Neanderthal man. Imagine the kerfuffle if somebody managed to clone him" (Richard Dawkins). [Scots, variant of curfuffle : cur-, intensive pref. (from Scots Gaelic car, twist, turn about, from Old Irish cor, a turn; see sker-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + fuffle, put into disorder (of imitative origin).] |
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