June 22, 2003
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I will be fuffled!

Thanks to Clifford Wulfman, I now know that the word is kerfuffle, from the Lowland Scots curfuffle. Fuffle, it turns out, means "to put in a state of disorder". It's in the OED. So, one can be fuddled and fuffled and still be unruffled.