Question of the Day #1393

FCC Demands Early Review of Disney Broadcast Licenses Amid Kimmel Kerfuffle

From the headline of this article at Yahoo! News Malaysia.

  上記の文で、kerfuffleの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "kerfuffle" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

【名】
〈英俗〉〔不要な〕ばか騒ぎ、騒動◆可算

   

Answer

According to :

a disturbance or commotion typically caused by a dispute or conflict

 

Examples

1. Allow me also to say one thing about the issue that has created some kerfuffle, namely voting rights.
2. We have all this great kerfuffle over one year—reducing the age from 21 to 20.
3. The kerfuffle comes amid questions about whether Mamdani will go forward with a project that would expand luxury housing at Hudson Yards. — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
4. A kerfuffle ensued about whether the Africans had the right to take a lunch break. — Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2017
5. This has caused, to put it mildly, no end of kerfuffle. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023

   

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