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fuss

fuss

fuss


noun

  1. an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
  2. an argument or noisy dispute: They had a fuss about who should wash dishes.
  3. a complaint or protest, especially about something relatively unimportant.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a fuss; make much ado about trifles: You’ll never finish the job if you fuss over details.
  2. to complain especially about something relatively unimportant.

verb (used with object)

  1. to disturb, especially with trifles; annoy; bother.

noun

  1. nervous activity or agitation, esp when disproportionate or unnecessary
  2. complaint or objectionhe made a fuss over the bill
  3. an exhibition of affection or admiration, esp if excessivethey made a great fuss over the new baby
  4. a quarrel; dispute

verb

  1. (intr) to worry unnecessarily
  2. (intr) to be excessively concerned over trifles
  3. (when intr, usually foll by over) to show great or excessive concern, affection, etc (for)
  4. (intr foll by with) Jamaican to quarrel violently
  5. (tr) to bother (a person)
n.

1701, perhaps an alteration of force, or imitative of bubbling or sputtering sounds, or from Danish fjas “foolery, nonsense.” First attested in Anglo-Irish writers, but no obvious connections to Irish. To make a fuss was earlier to keep a fuss (1726).

v.

1792, from fuss (n.). Related: Fussed; fussing.

In addition to the idiom beginning with fuss

  • fuss and feathers

also see:

  • kick up a fuss
  • make a fuss
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