Discord vs Kerfuffle - What's the difference?
discord | kerfuffle |
Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
* Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
* Burke
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
* Francis Bacon
(archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
* Francis Bacon
A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion or tumult.
* 2009 May 22,
* 2011 June 6, Mark Memmott, “
As nouns the difference between discord and kerfuffle
is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while kerfuffle is a disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion or tumult.As a verb discord
is (archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.discord
English
Noun
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
Verb
(en verb)- The one discording with the other.
kerfuffle
English
Alternative forms
* curfuffle, kafuffle, kerfluffle, kurfuffle * fuffle (by apheresis)Noun
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- You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act
Sarah Palin's Had Her Say; Now Let's Hear From Paul Revere”, The Two-Way , National Public Radio
- There's been a bit of a kerfuffle the past couple days over something Sarah Palin said about Paul Revere.
