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  • noun Plural form of fuss.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuss.

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Examples

  • Colin fusses because he doesn’t quite get the bowl full to start cooking the egg and then spills it on the way to the skillet.

    TV Round-Up « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • Colin fusses because he doesn’t quite get the bowl full to start cooking the egg and then spills it on the way to the skillet.

    TV Round-Up « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • Ever since she could remember there had been "fusses" about money; yet she and her mother had always got what they wanted, apparently without lasting detriment to the family fortunes.

    The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

  • Extends hands, legs and body to you for "pick me up"; looks down to floor, squirms and fusses, meaning "put me down"; expressionless stare means "I'm bored"; cranky and nothing soothes means "I'm tired."

    My daily life experience... 2008

  • Working to classical music, and also the hymns of praise that float over from the fundamentalist church next door most evenings, Luvaas fusses over her images, half painting, half sculpting, using sheets of wax to endow her finished reliefs with a raised, reverse stencil surface.

    John Seed: Lucinda Luvaas: Loving the City From a Distance John Seed 2011

  • Working to classical music, and also the hymns of praise that float over from the fundamentalist church next door most evenings, Luvaas fusses over her images, half painting, half sculpting, using sheets of wax to endow her finished reliefs with a raised, reverse stencil surface.

    John Seed: Lucinda Luvaas: Loving the City From a Distance John Seed 2011

  • He told a select committee that he anticipates "huge fusses" over cutbacks: "There'll be all hell let loose."

    BBC delivers £2 to economy for every pound of licence fee, says Deloitte report 2011

  • Working to classical music, and also the hymns of praise that float over from the fundamentalist church next door most evenings, Luvaas fusses over her images, half painting, half sculpting, using sheets of wax to endow her finished reliefs with a raised, reverse stencil surface.

    John Seed: Lucinda Luvaas: Loving the City From a Distance John Seed 2011

  • Monica fusses when her husband takes too long to fold the laundry.

    'Monica And David,' Building A Life On Their Terms 2010

  • On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game.

    Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season? Mark Giannotto 2010

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