Synonyms for fuss

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fuhs

Phonetic Transcription : fʌs

Top 10 synonyms for fuss

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Définition of fuss

Origin : 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).

noun disturbance, trouble

Example sentences :

I told Coplen to offer her a million cash for everything rather'n have any fuss.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Did he remember the fuss his dear father used to make about it?
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

That it was only a Yankee ship, any how, and that it is all "blarsted" nonsense to make a fuss about it.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various

If she insisted that she was ill and unable to go back, there would be a fuss.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Let 'em do just as they're a moind to, and not raise a fuss about it?
Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger

To make such a fuss, also, about your religion seemed to her indecorous and absurd.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

And so if either gets sick of the other he just leaves without any fuss.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

And to do the poor soul justice, I believe he did not at all know what the "fuss" had been about.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

They'll get there all right, and at least we shall get to bed in good time and without any fuss,' he thought.
Extract from : « Master and Man » by Leo Tolstoy

Just think of it—all that fuss and all that turmoil over something so obvious.
Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby

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