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What I hate is how some people make one feel so fisselig.
Tearing Down Dave Hingsburger 2007
chelster commented on the word fisselig
Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It (1988), where it is defined as "flustered to the point of incompetence"; being in "a temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging."
October 11, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word fisselig
fisselig - flustered into incompetence because a critical person is watching ... from German fisselig: thin, fine or requiring dexterity; awkward, clumsy, fiddly
April 22, 2013