fussbudget

See also: fuss-budget

English

WOTD – 5 December 2015

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?

One who complains a great deal, especially about unimportant matters

Bulgarian: мрънкало (bg) n (mrǎnkalo)
Danish: hidsigprop c
French: tatillon (fr) m, tatillonne (fr) f, difficile (fr) m or f, anxieux (fr) m, anxieuse (fr) f
German: Nörgler (de) m, Meckerer m, Meckerfritze m, Querulant (de) m, Meckerliese f
Spanish: criticón (es) m, quisquilloso (es) m, tiquismiquis (es) m, mañoso (es) m, maniático (es) m, pejiguero (es)

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