Wednesday Word: Kerfuffle

I'd like to start off our Wednesday Word with Kerfuffle.

And yes, it is a word.  (I had to check, I was so astonished)

The amazing thing about Kerfuffle is that it is an onomatopoeic word that sounds like it's meaning.  Too complex?  Try this:

Say Kerfuffle.  Now say it again, a bit louder and a bit slower.  Ker-fuff-le.  Now say it really fast and notice how much like a slurred stumble it sounds like.  It even kind of sounds like 'stumble,' as it has the same vowel sounds.  Ker fuffle.  It's a real kerfuffle.

The dictionary defines the word as: a commotion or a disorder.  But you already figured that out because what does kerfuffle sound like?  A messed up situation.  With lots of lithping people.  All waving their hands in the air shouting 'oh, what a kerfuffle, whatever shall we do?'  And jumping up and down.  Because yeah, I can totally see that happening.  :)

(I mean no offense towards people with lisps.  Or as I prefer to call it, lithps.  I believe it was a heartless move on whoever created that word to include in it the consonant that you cannot say if you have that speech problem.  So out of solidarity I always lithp my lithp.  Because some things in life deserve to be more fair)