shemozzle
/ʃɪˈmɒz(ə)l
/(also schemozzle)
noun informal
A state of chaos and confusion; a muddle: the debate about climate change and how to deal with it is a shemozzle...
- And let us contrast it with the frequent shemozzles that characterise Her Majesty's Opposition, wherein disputes, dissent and debates rage.
- Here's the upshot of the whole shemozzle as I see it.
- I think it's absolutely fair to say that the immediate responses in dealing with the community exposure were a shemozzle.
Origin
Late 19th century: Yiddish, suggested by late Hebrew šel-lō'-mazzāl 'of no luck'.
Rhymes
- health warning
- healthy
- healthy-looking
- Heaney, Seamus
- heap
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- hear
- hearable
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- hearer
- hear! hear!
- hearing
- hearing aid
- hearing dog
- hearing-impaired
- hearing loop
- hearken
- hear Mass
- hearsay
- hear say (or tell) of (or that)
- hearse
- Hearst, Patty
- Hearst, William Randolph
- heart
- heartache