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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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