Fuss
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English
Noun
Fuss (plural Fusses)- (countable or uncountable) excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something
- They made a big fuss about the wedding plans.
- What's all the fuss about?
- a complaint or noise
- If you make enough of a fuss about the problem, maybe they'll fix it for you.
- an exhibition of affection or admiration
- They made a great fuss over the new baby.
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Verb
Fuss (third-person singular simple present fusses, present participle fussing, simple past and past participle fussed)
- (intransitive) to be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- His grandmother will never quit fussing over his vegetarianism.
- (intransitive) to fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust; to worry something
- Quit fussing with your hair. It looks fine.
Verb
fuss
- (transitive) To show affection for, especially animals.
- (transitive) To pet.
- He fussed the cat.
Adjectives for Fuss
indignant; noisy; quarrelsome; sudden; nasty; unspeakable.
Thesaurus
addle, addle the wits, ado, agitate, agitation, air a grievance, altercation, argument, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, beef, befuddle, bellyache, bewilder, bicker, bickering, bitch, bleat, blood feud, blow off, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, bravado, bravery, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bug, bullying, burn to, burst, bustle, buzz about, cacophony, carp at, chafe, chaos, chiffon, churn, clamor, clinquant, cloud, coil, commotion, complain, confuse, contention, controversy, conturbation, crab, croak, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disdain, disorder, disorganize, disorient, dispute, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, dither, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullition, electrify, embarrass, embroilment, entangle, excitement, falling-out, fanaticism, fanfaronade, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, festoons, feud, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fight, finery, fit, flap, fliting, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fog, folderol, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fret and fume, fret at, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuddle, fuddy-duddy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss at, fuss-budget, fusser, fussiness, fusspot, gaiety, gaudery, get excited, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, granny, gripe, groan, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, hardly wait, hassle, haste, hasten, hectoring, helter-skelter, henpeck, holler, howl, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurrah, hurry, hurry about, imbroglio, inquietude, intimidation, itch to, jar, jitters, jolt, jump the gun, jumpiness, kick, lather, lodge a complaint, logomachy, maelstrom, make a fuss, malaise, maze, melee, miff, mist, mix up, moider, moil, muddle, murmur, mutter, nag, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nibble at, old maid, old woman, open quarrel, pandemonium, passion, paste, peck at, pell-mell, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, pick and choose, pick at, pick on, pinchbeck, polemic, pother, pucker, put out, quarrel, racket, rage, raise a howl, raise hell, rampage, rant, rattle, register a complaint, repine, restlessness, riot, rock, rodomontade, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, rush about, rush around, scorn, scramble, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, sharp words, shindig, shindy, shock, side, slanging match, snarl, spasm, spat, speed, splutter, spurn, spurt, sputter, squabble, squawk, squirm, stagger, stew, stink, stir, storminess, strife, superfluity, swagger, swashbucklery, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, swirl, swivet, take on, tear around, tempestuousness, throw into confusion, tiff, tinsel, tizzy, to-do, trappings, trepidation, trepidity, trickery, trouble, trumpery, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, tussle, twitter, twitteration, unease, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, uproar, upset, vendetta, vortex, wail, wait impatiently, whine, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whiz about, wildness, words, worry, wrangle, yammer, yap, yap at, yawp, yelp, zeal, zealousness
Etymology
Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”)[1], from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”))
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