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• fuss-budget —    Used to a person who fusses overmuch about trifling matters. With ‘fuss pot’ one may compare ‘bigpot’, ‘swankpot’, ‘stink pot’. etc., terms mainly used by children. ‘You old fuss pot’ is spoken by one woman to another in Rebecca, by Daphne du… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• fuss-budget — /ˈfʌs bʌdʒət/ (say fus bujuht) noun Colloquial a complaining person who constantly makes an issue of trifling matters. {fuss + budget (def. 7); US (1900s) …  

• fuss-budget — noun thinks about unfortunate things that might happen • Syn: ↑worrier, ↑fusspot, ↑worrywart • Derivationally related forms: ↑worry (for: ↑worrier) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• fuss-pot —    Used to a person who fusses overmuch about trifling matters. With ‘fuss pot’ one may compare ‘bigpot’, ‘swankpot’, ‘stink pot’. etc., terms mainly used by children. ‘You old fuss pot’ is spoken by one woman to another in Rebecca, by Daphne du… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• fuss — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Fuss and Feathers — Infobox Film name = Fuss and Feathers image size = caption = director = Fred Niblo producer = Thomas H. Ince writer = Julien Josephson narrator = starring = Enid Bennett Douglas MacLean music = cinematography = Robert Newhard editing = W. Duncan… …   Wikipedia

• Big Gus, What's the Fuss? — Infobox Film name = Big Gus, What s The Fuss? caption = director = Ami Artzi Lloyd Kaufman producer = Ami Artzi Lloyd Kaufman writer = Ami Artzi Lloyd Kaufman starring = Ilan Dar Joseph Shiloach Dubi Gal Sassi Keshet Elisheva Michaeli music =… …   Wikipedia

• fidget — Synonyms and related words: chafe, coquet, dabble, dally, dither, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle faddle, fidget with, fidgetiness, finger with, flip out, flirt, flutter, fool, fool around, fool with, freak out on, fret, fribble, frivol, fuss, fuss… …   Moby Thesaurus

• fuddy duddy — Synonyms and related words: Colonel Blimp, Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, dad, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fogyish, fossil, fud, fuss, fuss budget, fusser, fusspot, granny, has been, longhair, matriarch, mid… …   Moby Thesaurus

• granny — Synonyms and related words: Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, beldam, conservative, crone, dad, dame, dodo, dowager, elder, fogy, fossil, frump, fud, fuddy duddy, fuss, fuss budget, fusser, fusspot, gammer, grandam, grandma,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• old maid — Synonyms and related words: Victorian, bachelor girl, bluenose, feme sole, fuddy duddy, fuss, fuss budget, fusser, fusspot, goody goody, granny, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, mid Victorian, old lady, old woman, prig, prude, puritan,… …   Moby Thesaurus