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  • verb Present participle of fuss.
  • noun Excessive care; act of one who fusses.

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Examples

  • Really, the worst that might happen from Pakistani fussing is that we could get our hair mussed.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • A lot of the fussing is strictly on party line stuff but there are real legitimate reasons to be against several things that Obama is trying to do.

    The haunted house on Capitol Hill 2009

  • Really, the worst that might happen from Pakistani fussing is that we could get our hair mussed.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Really, the worst that might happen from Pakistani fussing is that we could get our hair mussed.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Really, the worst that might happen from Pakistani fussing is that we could get our hair mussed.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • In the nearest thing we find, in fact, the wolf-whistle of some young blood as a hot babe walks past him and his mates, any fussing is generally suspect, smacking of thinly-veiled sexual intimidation.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • In the nearest thing we find, in fact, the wolf-whistle of some young blood as a hot babe walks past him and his mates, any fussing is generally suspect, smacking of thinly-veiled sexual intimidation.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3) Hal Duncan 2008

  • In the mornings, right before dawn, he would wake up and begin fussing for his bottle.

    WILLIAM DAVID BARNETT 10 NOVEMBER 1958 - 19 JUNE 2001 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Tanna-Sometimes fussing is highly therapeutic, no?

    Toast and the Truffled Eggs Lindy 2007

  • I've got two more scripts to write (and while I'd love to have them done before I submit the first issue to Image, it Ain't Gonna Happen, so no point in fussing about it), so in the "Catie has decided she is going to have the art done for the first full Chance story arc" scheme of things, I've still got some work to do, but the idea of doing so is * fun*.

    things i have done... 2006

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