fusser

noun

Definition of fussernext
1
as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things sat next to an insufferable fusser, who whined during the entire bus trip

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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person a natural fusser who has never had a glimmer of gratitude for anything done for him

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  1. crab
  2. baby
  3. bear
  4. fussbudget
  5. crank
Noun
  • The landscape also included large primates, rodents, snakes, crabs — and even carnivorous marsupials.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Villa Avellana Who Stays There: Tech entrepreneurs, bank CEOs, music producers, and entertainers The Property: A modern, teak-and-glass villa on a secluded cove with red land crabs, white egrets, and turtle nests.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of crab
Noun
  • Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle are introducing the world to their baby boy.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Nov. 2024
  • And now, after the long nuclear winter of aural isolation, the clouds have parted, the sun is shining through, and the cassette is back, baby.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of baby
Noun
  • For instance, of 10 bears observed interacting with vehicle barriers, eight crossed successfully.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At Green Angels Landscaping, visitors can stop by on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for a drive-thru display of lights and decor complete with large nutcrackers, a tunnel of lights for children to run through, a polar train village and a town of holiday bears.
    Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of bear
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Definition of fussbudget
Noun
  • Intellectual humility is usually hailed as a virtue, but in this Aeon essay, philosopher Rachel Fraser makes an unexpected argument against it by drawing on the case of geneticist Barbara McClintock, who relentlessly pursued her ideas even though her peers probably saw her as a crank.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Lane was too extraordinary a surgeon to be shrugged off as a crank, but before long reports of worryingly high mortality rates began to circulate and several damning exposés appeared in prominent medical journals.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of crank
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