This week's theme: miscellaneous words. kerfuffle (kuhr-FUHF-uhl) noun
A commotion. [Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Scots curfuffle, from fuffle (to disorder).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=kerfuffle -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "After a kerfuffle over the arrest of an 87-year-old man in Oak Bay, Victoria police devised a cloth handcuff designed to protect the fragile skin of the elderly." Jack Knox; And on the Lighter Side; Times Colonist (Victoria, Canada); Dec 30, 2007. Sponsored by: Where are Salman Rushdie, Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini? http://redroom.com Find authors' books, videos, blogs, and conversation -- in the Red Room! Announce your products, services, or message here. Reach more than 600,000 people in this space. Write to: sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). ............................................................................ The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/kerfuffle.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/kerfuffle.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/kerfuffle.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
