fusspot
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fusspot (plural fusspots)
- (informal) A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
- My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!
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person who makes a fuss — see fussbudget
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fusspot (third-person singular simple present fusspots, present participle fusspotting, simple past and past participle fusspotted)
- (informal, intransitive) To make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
- 1999, Annie Caulfield, The Winners' Enclosure, page 67:
- I hadn't realised then that fusspotting about small details of social disorder was an Australian obsession.