cafoufle

I know the pronunciation is supposed to be similar to kerfuffle, but in my head this sounds like "Kah-foo-flay" and I love it so, so much.

Random: Someone at work just said to me, "Oh. Why are you still here?"

Bahahah. and, Thanks.

Holy RAGE

I want to find this dude and kick his ass.

I want to find this dude and kick his ass.

from the link:

They were asked to pay Scooby Gang Promotions by money order or direct debit.

perhaps a red flag?

It's a shame he didn't fly Oceanic.

After..some abortive backstage kerfuffles at the National Theatre, Wedekind's Spring Awakening has scraped past the Lord Chamberlain

There's so much story in that one sentence.

I want to find this dude and kick his ass.

Yeah, there was a quick mention of that over at that con-dom-wank LJ.

The other spelling has more interesting citations. I particularly like "Ye ken where Dick curfuffled a' her hair" from 1768.

curfuffle cur'fuffle, sb. Sc. Also carfuffle, cafuffle, etc. [f. prec. vb.Now widely used as a colloquialism in the forms gefuffle and (esp.) kerfuffle. ]

Disorder, flurry, agitation.

* 1813 G. Bruce Poems 65 An' Jeanie's kirtle, aye sae neat, Gat there a sad carfuffle.

* 1816 Scott Antiq. xx, Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle.

* 1816 Scott Antiq. xxix, Troth, my lord maun be turned feel outright..and he puts himself into sic a curfuffle for ony thing ye could bring him, Edie.

* 1823 Misses Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 333 (Jam.) Ye need na put yoursel into ony carfuffle about the matter.

* 1953 John o' London's 3 July 602/3 The word cafuffle is still in general use in her part of Scotland..as a noun meaning a state of confusion.

* 1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy vii. 114, I could put up with any amount of monotony far more patiently than even the smallest disturbance, bother, bustle, or what the Scotch call kurfuffle.

* 1960 K. Martin Matter of Time 187 The girl next door and her boy friend are having a wee cafoufle in the garden.

* 1961 Radio Times 14 Dec. 3/2 You remember the cafuffle there was when the Ministry of Transport introduced their ten-year test for cars.

* 1971 Times 9 Jan. 16/4 Since the predictable pre-April curfuffle, there has been the predictable summer and autumn hush.

curfuffle cur'fuffle, 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-shúil rolling eye, car-tuaitheal wrong turn: cf. the Lowland Sc. curcuddoch, curdoo, curgloff, curjute, curmurring, curnoited, in which the prefix seems to have the sense of L. dis-. ] trans. To put into a state of disorder; to ruffle.

* 1583 R. S. Leg. Bp. St. Androis in Sempill Ballates (1872) 215 His ruffe curfufled about his craig.

* 1768 Ross Helenore 81 (Jam.) Ye ken where Dick curfuffled a' her hair.

having a wee cafoufle in the garden.

Whee! New Tag.

Ye need na put yoursel into ony carfuffle about the matter.

I can totally hear myself saying this in an exaggerated Scottish accent, every time fandom_wank goes insane.

This is why it's a good thing my internet is not wired for sound.