Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
curfuffle .
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Examples
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'There was sic an unco carfuffle that I had clean forgot the vivers.'
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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"Wheder dere's anyfing wrong or not, 'snot for me to say, massa, but I t'ink dere's suffin' up, for she seems in a carfuffle."
The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Arthur Twidle 1859
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` ` Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright, '' said the domestic, ` ` an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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` ` Ye maun ken I was at the shirra's the day; for, God help me, I gang about a 'gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle --- now, it's no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin'. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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"Ye maun ken I was at the shirra's the day; for, God help me, I gang about a 'gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle -- now, it's no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin'."
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"Ye maun ken I was at the shirra's the day; for, God help me, I gang about a 'gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle -- now, it's no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin'."
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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“Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright,” said the domestic, “an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie.”
The Antiquary 1584
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"Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright," said the domestic, "an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him,
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright," said the domestic, "an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him,
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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“Ye maun ken I was at the shirra’s the day; for, God help me, I gang about a’ gates like the troubled spirit; and wha suld come whirling there in a post-chaise, but Monkbarns in an unco carfuffle — now, it’s no a little thing that will make his honour take a chaise and post-horse twa days rinnin’.”
The Antiquary 1584
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