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fusspot

noun

Etymology

From fuss + pot.

  1. inherited from *budnós✻
  2. inherited from *puttaz✻
  3. derived from *pott✻
  4. derived from pot — “pot”
  5. inherited from pott
  6. inherited from pot
  7. compounded as fusspot — “fuss + pot”

Definitions

  1. A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.

    • My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!

  2. To make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.

    • I hadn't realised then that fusspotting about small details of social disorder was an Australian obsession.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fusspot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA