as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
a customer who's a real fussbudget about wanting her food very hot
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But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher.
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Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
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“Fussbudget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fussbudget. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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