kerfuffle
noun
[ kəˈfʌf(ə)l ]
• a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.
• "there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship"
Origin:
early 19th century: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car ‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to disorder’), or related to Irish cior thual ‘confusion, disorder’.
