"row, disturbance," 1970; from 1946 as kafuffle, said to have been used c. 1930 in Canadian English, ultimately from Scottish curfuffle.
keratin
kerato-
kerb
kerchief
*kerd-
kerfuffle
kermes
kern
kernel
kerosene
*kerp-
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