shemozzle

/ ʃɪˈmɒzəl /

noun

1. informal.
   a noisy confusion or dispute; uproar

Word History and Origins

Origin of shemozzle¹

C19: perhaps from Yiddish shlimazl misfortune

Example Sentences

Upstairs there was a further shemozzle over access.

From The Guardian

But then producer Boz Temple-Morris turned my thinking on its head, pointing out that the very best way into this whole shemozzle is exactly that: drama.

From The Guardian

For all the overblown shemozzle of Alexis Sánchez’s long goodbye from Arsenal, the dizzyingly tedious debates over net cost, balance of the deal, the artfully shot piano-plonking video cut, one thing has remained unaltered.

From The Guardian

Nobody really knows the exact ins and out of this mid-season shemozzle.

From The Guardian

The politics of unified small-island ambition simply can’t apply to our own shemozzle of divided interests, the rise of the market ideology across every aspect of public life.

From The Guardian