Fuss
[fʌs]
Definition
(noun.) an angry disturbance; 'he didn't want to make a fuss'; 'they had labor trouble'; 'a spot of bother'.
(verb.) worry unnecessarily or excessively; 'don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now'.
Typist: Nola--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
(n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.
(v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Colloquial.] Ado, bustle, fidget, hurry, worry, flurry, stir, excitement, agitation, PUCKER, much ado about trifles, or about nothing.
v. n. [Colloquial.] Bustle, be in a fidget, be in a stew, be in a pucker, make much ado about trifles or about nothing.
Edited by Jonathan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stir, excitement, tumult, worry, ado, bustle, flurry, fidget
ANT:Quiet, peace, sedateness, tranquillity, composure, calm
Edited by Kathleen
Definition
n. a bustle or tumult: haste flurry.—v.i. to be in a bustle.—adv. Fuss′ily.—n. Fuss′iness a needless state of bustle.—adj. Fuss′y.
Checked by Andrew
Examples
- All this fuss about a rascally three hundred pound-house and not twenty carriages! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- After all, what a fuss, for a dead nigger! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, Vincy, he was my first, and you made a fine fuss with him when he came. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Of course, 'mon oncle' soon gave inindeed, where was the use of making a fuss? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, Monday morning came, and I was in such a fuss! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The cases are more monotonous, and one has to go through more fuss and listen more deferentially to nonsense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On this day, then, he went directly to the door and spent hours examining it and fussing with the hinges, the knob and the latch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That will be better than fussing over my own things, which are plenty nice enough as they are. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I've been fussing over the thing so long, I really don't know whether it's good, bad, or indifferent. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I should think you might let me go, too, for Beth is fussing over her piano, and I haven't got anything to do, and am so lonely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The steam launch was fussing in, all its music jingling, people calling excitedly from on board. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stranger things have happened, thought Jo, as she fussed about the room. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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