fussbudget

• “In the past, the President notoriously spent immense amounts of time poring over the, leading one exasperated congressman to describe her as a "fussbudget" (defined by the American Heritage dictionary as a "person who fusses over trifles.”

  Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose

• “Here we have Charlie Brown and his insecurities with the Little Red-Haired Girl, Linus running for class president, Lucy being the eternal fussbudget, and Snoopy dealing with a pesky flock of birds (who would eventually evolve into one bird, Woodstock).”

  Weekly Mishmash: March 1-7 : Scrubbles.net

• “If Bailey Ruth has to bend a few rules to help Kathleen save her family, Wiggins, her fussbudget supervisor, will make sure it all turns out right in the end.”

  Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart: Book summary

• “One man turns "obsessive about his exercise program"; another, the fussbudget bachelor in "Trespass," drives a would-be girlfriend crazy by punctiliously noting their nature walks in a logbook.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Stories of Midlife Crises And Motherhood Dilemmas

• “The show's influence is certainly still being felt -- most noticeably on NBC's "30 Rock," with its show-about-a-show, and on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where Larry David plays a neurotic fussbudget named Larry David who co-created "Seinfeld," which is of course true.”

  The Washington Post: TV review of "The Larry Sanders Show" coming out on box set

• “Losing It With Jillian" takes what was good about "The Biggest Loser" -- the weigh-ins, the workouts, the touchy-feely fussbudget who is Jillian's co-star, Bob Harper -- and replaces it with all that oopy-goopy lard of the sorrow of being fat.”

  The Washington Post: NBC's 'Losing It With Jillian,' shedding tears before pounds

• “At this point she clearly dismissed me as a curmudgeonly fussbudget, which I most assuredly am.”

  Laissez-Fairing: Rules vs. Aerodynamics

• “The personalities were also altered: the Scarecrow was intensely accident-prone but strangely indifferent to his bumbling, the heartless Tin Man was aggressively rude and insensitive to others and the Lion, although still jittery when facing real and perceived threat, is often more of a fussbudget than a brazen sissy.”

  Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat

• “This material is ideal for heating to intensely high temperature for searing and stir-frying, but it also means that, unlike the other low-maintenance equipment in my kitchen, the wok is a fussbudget.”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “The Democratic caucuses, by contrast, feel like the SATs, where a fussbudget caucus chair, enjoying his or her moment in the sun, explains a mind-numbing series of rules and insists that you obey them if you want your effort to count.”

  Newsweek: Slumber Party

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