fusspot BrE
fussbudget AmE old-fashioned

The thought made me laugh to myself because Mike is a regular fusspot about things like that.

Well you can stop being a fusspot if you don't mind.

She'd been the same way during the day, according to Bertha, who this evening had referred to her as a "fusspot."

"He spoke of you as an old fusspot."

She has painstakingly cooked, boned and chopped up every morsel for her fusspot.

'No, I didn't expect you would, but you always were an old fusspot.

Are you becoming a fusspot?

"Oh, Daddy, you are a real fusspot."

"I'm Franc," he went on, "though I'm sure some people call me the neighborhood fusspot."

"Your trouble, Pollio, is that you're a meticulous fusspot."

Fusspot had said recess.

Jonathan Coy as a nervous fusspot displays a brow permanently and hilariously furrowed.

"Good night, you great fusspot.

I AM quite possibly a fusspot about my mirages, and so my own mirage list has always been exceedingly short.

Matron preferred not to accept his invitation to join in a professional contemptuousness of a fusspot hospital secretary and looked blankly back.

Mr Fusspot, Mayor of TV Town where the action takes place.

Fuss Pot (a fusspot)

Some fusspot, maybe Charles Baudelaire, once said he was unable to understand how any civilized person could pick up a newspaper without a shudder of disgust.

"He's such a fusspot.

"Oh, all right, then, fusspot.

"The fusspot in me appreciates the fusspot in him.

Chief Supt Strange, once a likeable fusspot, seems to be going round the bend, and Morse got the answer wrong a whole reel before the end.

Soon, however, she confessed to finding Mrs Tillotson a fusspot and Alice a tiresome chatterbox.

Jon Trenchard's slappable, up-herself Bianca is recast as a fusspot cleric.

He is no pinkie-in-the-air fusspot who finds delight in taste-testing balsamic vinegar or drizzling sea salt from some distant shore on his blanched asparagus stalks.

Call me a fussbudget; I want to know, even if it's during a replay.

She is often referred to as the world's greatest fussbudget, mostly by her mother.

He's the perpetual fussbudget, never satisfied with anyone's work.

I thought he was just being a fussbudget."

"I'm glad I won't be there to hear him, cursing me for a fussbudget."

Kate was always overly cautious, a fussbudget who cast a suspicious eye at all men.

In truth, he liked the Scotsman, and was willing to forgive the man being an occasional fussbudget.

I'm being an old fussbudget, I know.

He was rather a fussbudget in the kitchen; his worrying and nitpicking amused Hilary.

I should think that'd ruin your tail in the long run, Miss Fussbudget."

No longer was he a fussbudget.

("We called our oldest daughter, Meredith, a fussbudget when she was very small.")

She missed the archaeologist's fussbudget passion for prudence.

In contrast to Batsheva, the narrative "we" is a fussbudget, and increasingly a bore.

But when I had finally chased the old fussbudget off to rest, I could elude thought no longer.

You're sounding like an old fussbudget.

Suddenly, people who once treated Ms. Truss like a nitpicking fussbudget are taking her seriously.

"Of course there wasn't, my little fussbudget.

'Edgar always said that I was a terrible fussbudget.'

"Ho come on then, fussbudget, we'll go an' get 'er."

Ignatius bristled at the insinuation that he was a fussbudget and sent him a tart riposte.

He was a fussbudget, pink of rounded face and wearing old-fashioned pince-nez glasses on a bulbous little nose.

Don't be a fussbudget.

"You'd have some talking heads, the client, the agency, a fussbudget academic and some Ralph Nader-type," he said.

She was then promoted to the voice of fussbudget Lucy van Pelt in the following specials: