fussbudget
See also: fuss-budget
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fussbudget (plural fussbudgets)
- (colloquial, derogatory, Canada, US) One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot.
- Their three-year-old daughter can be quite a fussbudget, but she's cute.
- 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting Russell Seitz, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
- The nation's 50 million smokers remain at liberty to vote en bloc for a fussbudget-free Congress. Are the polls ready to accommodate smokers?
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One who complains a great deal, especially about unimportant matters
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