fussbudget

See also: fuss-budget

English

WOTD – 5 December 2015

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfʌsˌbʌd͡ʒɪt/
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Noun

fussbudget (plural fussbudgets)

  1. (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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