fussbudget

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I'm glad I don't work there, because the boss seems a little bit of a fussbudget.

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  1. noun A person who fusses over trifles. Also called fusspot.

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  • I'm glad I don't work there, because the boss seems a little bit of a fussbudget. —  RVABlogs
  • You can't stand that ditherer Coleridge, she can't stand that whiner Keats, I can't stand that dry fussbudget Wordsworth, and we all hate Shelley-poets are Rorschach tests. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • And yet, for this fussbudget and extremist, it "doesn't count". —  Second Thoughts
  • It's not just the two main characters, fussbudget Felix Ungar, the sort of anal-retentive chef and housekeeper that Phil Hartman would parody so effectively decades later on —  DVD Talk
  • The irascible Internet fussbudget has gotten mad at Jason Calacanis for being self-promotional, mad at —  Gawker
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