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On the back of that, the financial website "24/7 Wall St," is reporting that some 3.5% of GM dealers, about 150 of them, are opting out of the guarantee program altogether, the site saying, "Although GM has stated it will foot the bill for returns, it appears there's enough concern (or confusion) that it's causing a car-fuffle."
Steve Parker: GM's New TV Commercials -- Do They Grab You? 2009
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East Wing apologists are whirling like KitchenAid salad spinners over the Iron Chef-fuffle: "Due to the production delay between the shoot at the White House and the shoot at Food Network, the produce used in Kitchen Stadium during the 'Super Chef Battle' was not actually from the White House garden," admitted a Food Network spokeswoman.
GOPUSA 2010
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East Wing apologists are whirling like KitchenAid salad spinners over the Iron Chef-fuffle:
Latest Articles 2010
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East Wing apologists are whirling like KitchenAid salad spinners over the Iron Chef-fuffle:
Latest Articles 2010
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Sadly, a "cautious" Obama Administration continues to err on the side of protecting war criminals and torturers, and again this from Dmitri Orlov ( "Kolpasnik") on how the Russian world "fuffle," which has a bizarre English cognate, meaning a fraud deliberately manufactured to get someone to go for it ... describes virtually everything happening to us ... in short, we want to be fooled.
the talking dog 2009
skipvia commented on the word fuffle
To throw into disorder; root of kerfuffle.
October 7, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word fuffle
(noun) - A word applied to an abundance of clothing. A woman with too many flounces or ribbons would be said to have "too much fuffle" about her.
--Alfred Easther's Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, 1883
January 14, 2018