fusser

The "fusser" and liar lives even on the battlefield.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Durand was not a "fusser," but he admired Peggy Stewart more than any girl he had ever known, and the friendship held no element of silly sentimentality.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

He had become fashion's sprig, a "fusser" and butterfly, and he reproached his roommate for shunning the ladies.

Ramsey Milholland Booth Tarkington 1907

Mary thoroughly approves of him, she's a fusser by nature too; she deplores his heathenism but says he has more sense than many a Christian.

The Shadow of the East

In my ingrown heart I hate him so there is no danger for me, tho 'I've heard that he's a perfect fusser with the women.

Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Jane Burr

"The old fusser," murmured Andy, as he rose from the easy chair.

Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Roy Eliot Stokes

"Well, Sam, you're my brother-in-law -- married to my own sister and living under the same roof with me -- am I a habitual lady-fusser, or do they call me Hermie the Hermit at home?"

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

Martie that Rod was the neatest man she had ever seen, such a fusser about his bath and his clothes.

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Skippy the first held him a moment with a stern and disciplinary eye and then relaxing, said as he contemplated the hang of his trousers before the mirror, "I hear you've started in to be a fusser."

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915

"The Egghead is a terrible fusser," said Skippy with new appreciation of his own value, "you should have seen him at the Prom."

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915