fusspots

Ambivalence is an excellent quality in a historian, however, and for all Mr. Hitchings's hand-wringing, even the fusspots will relish his latest book.

Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011

He has plenty of criticisms for those "inveterate fusspots" who understand just enough English grammar to lord it over their supposed inferiors, but he isn't so naïve as to think we can be rid of "rules" in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011

We all hate fusspots and censors and the Maine woman they quote sounds like both.

Teddy bear, teddy bear, do a trick-- Roger Sutton 2006

It may seem to be vital to you now but outsiders are only going to see a couple of silly fusspots, and no one wants to get next to that or buy their words.

Deuces Wild Miss Snark 2006

Whatever it is, it contains too many liturgical fusspots.

Archive 2006-03-01 Mike L 2006

Whatever it is, it contains too many liturgical fusspots.

The schism has come....at last Mike L 2006

If you ban fireworks you are a control freak politician who is more than prepared to back the new lab and tory fusspots who have nothing better to do becase they are all tolls of the rich and thus real useful reform is beyond them- hence the need to do posture politics and non politics such as this.

Can We Ban Fireworks Please Kerron Cross 2006

For the great economists were no mere intellectual fusspots.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

For the great economists were no mere intellectual fusspots.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Particularly, said Stern columnist Lutz Kinkel, because many of the shilly-shalliers, the fusspots, the doubters, don't actually believe in Merkel's strategy.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011