 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fuss
noun
1: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: {dither}, {pother},
{tizzy}, {flap}]
2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: {trouble}, {bother},
{hassle}]
3: a quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {bickering}, {spat},
{tiff}, {squabble}, {pettifoggery}]
4: a rapid bustling commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle}, {flurry},
{ado}, {stir}]
verb
1: worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much
over the grandchildren--they are quite big now" [syn: {niggle},
{fret}]
2: care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn:
{mother}, {overprotect}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fuss \Fuss\ (f[u^]s), noun [Cf. {Fusome}.]
1. A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about
trifles. --Byron.
Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss
or noise --Carlyle.
2. One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget.
[R.]
I am a fuss and I don't deny it. --W. D.
Howell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fuss \Fuss\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fussed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fussing}.]
To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a
bustle or ado. --Sir W. Scott.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
330 Moby Thesaurus words for "fuss":
addle, addle the wits, ado, agitate, agitation, air a grievance,
altercation, argument, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, beef, befuddle,
bellyache, bewilder, bicker, bickering, bitch, bleat, blood feud,
blow off, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering,
boastfulness, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, bravado,
bravery, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bug, bullying, burn to, burst,
bustle, buzz about, cacophony, carp at, chafe, chaos, chiffon,
churn, clamor, clinquant, cloud, coil, commotion, complain,
confuse, contention, controversy, conturbation, crab, croak, daze,
dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, discomposure,
disconcert, disdain, disorder, disorganize, disorient, dispute,
disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, dither, donnybrook,
donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullition, electrify, embarrass,
embroilment, entangle, excitement, falling-out, fanaticism,
fanfaronade, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, festoons, feud,
fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fight, finery, fit,
flap, fliting, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration,
flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fog, folderol, foment,
fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret,
fret and fume, fret at, frilliness, frilling, frills,
frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuddle, fuddy-duddy,
fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss at, fuss-budget, fusser, fussiness,
fusspot, gaiety, gaudery, get excited, gilding, gilt, gingerbread,
granny, gripe, groan, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt,
hardly wait, hassle, haste, hasten, hectoring, helter-skelter,
henpeck, holler, howl, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurrah,
hurry, hurry about, imbroglio, inquietude, intimidation, itch to,
jar, jitters, jolt, jump the gun, jumpiness, kick, lather,
lodge a complaint, logomachy, maelstrom, make a fuss, malaise,
maze, melee, miff, mist, mix up, moider, moil, muddle, murmur,
mutter, nag, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nibble at,
old maid, old woman, open quarrel, pandemonium, passion, paste,
peck at, pell-mell, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester,
pick and choose, pick at, pick on, pinchbeck, polemic, pother,
pucker, put out, quarrel, racket, rage, raise a howl, raise hell,
rampage, rant, rattle, register a complaint, repine, restlessness,
riot, rock, rodomontade, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, rout,
row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, rush about, rush around,
scorn, scramble, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, sharp words,
shindig, shindy, shock, side, slanging match, snarl, spasm, spat,
speed, splutter, spurn, spurt, sputter, squabble, squawk, squirm,
stagger, stew, stink, stir, storminess, strife, superfluity,
swagger, swashbucklery, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, swirl,
swivet, take on, tear around, tempestuousness,
throw into confusion, tiff, tinsel, tizzy, to-do, trappings,
trepidation, trepidity, trickery, trouble, trumpery, tumult,
tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil,
tussle, twitter, twitteration, unease, unquiet, unrest, unsettle,
uproar, upset, vendetta, vortex, wail, wait impatiently, whine,
whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whiz about, wildness, words, worry,
wrangle, yammer, yap, yap at, yawp, yelp, zeal, zealousness
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