Other person’s response: “Kerfuffle, too long to use in scrabble game…”
I couldn’t resist since I play Scrabble or used to and love playing the game – words – so I responded: “You’re right any word you can’t use in Scrabble… And there is no piece of it that is a word on its own. Dang. *
I really like kerfuffle – it’s got all those consonants that swear words have so I’m going to try to train myself to yell that when I bang my toe or some such event.
People will probably be so startled they’ll say “God Bless you” or “Gesundheit” in response.
c. GCYI
*If you’re not a Scrabble player, you only have seven letters in your “hand” to spell a word but you must use what’s on the board already whether it’s one letter or a word. So if there were a piece that was a word on its own and were already placed on the board, you could add the to that word. But not with kerfuffle).