Synonyms for fusses
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : fÊŒs |
Top 10 synonyms for fusses Other synonyms for the word fusses
Définition of fusses
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
- All that fusses me is whether the carriage will stand the strain.
- Extract from : « Carl and the Cotton Gin » by Sara Ware Bassett
- "That's just the point about lots of fusses," Morten replied.
- Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo
- She fusses over that old Miss Pepperpot as though she were one of the family.
- Extract from : « The Corner House Girls in a Play » by Grace Brooks Hill
- He fusses over them as if they were the only children in the world.
- Extract from : « The Burgess Bird Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
- I'm always having colds and headaches, and fusses of some kind.
- Extract from : « Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair » by Louisa May Alcott
- Even in this volume he fusses too much about the De Guérins.
- Extract from : « Res Judicat » by Augustine Birrell
- Burpee strides over to the piano and fusses around among the music.
- Extract from : « Zoe; Or, Some Day » by May Leonard
- How he fusses like just now don't make no difference; you know how your papa is.
- Extract from : « Just Around the Corner » by Fannie Hurst
- So he puffs and fusses and sighs his way through his morning's work.
- Extract from : « A Certain Rich Man » by William Allen White
- He fusses about things with which he has no concern, and he neglects every obvious duty.
- Extract from : « Rodney Stone » by Arthur Conan Doyle
Antonyms for fusses
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