I am also still a fusspot about the irritable men of my company. From Wordnik.com. [Bramblies « Millicent and Carla Fran] Reference
I find some batty old fusspot who says everyone went to Archie's house. '. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
"During the day the fusspot habits of a lifetime prevent real discovery.". From Wordnik.com. [Silence] Reference
Ivan thinks the world of him but he's a terrific fusspot, and he trots to Patsy with every complaint. From Wordnik.com. [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
I thought of flu, someone sneezing in her face, Tommy being a fusspot husband because I didn't understand, don't you see that. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
And his father is much older than his mother, and the father's a bit of a crusty old conservative fusspot, you know, a kind of real -- what they called an. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation] Reference
He is also surrounded by a high-quality cast including Michelle Dockery as an angst-ridden Ophelia, Hugh Ross as a fusspot Polonius and Colin Tierney as a likable Horatio. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet] Reference
Sure, even the most ornery fusspot will come across something he likes when perusing the coverage, but for the most part the stuff that emerges seems to fall under one of three categories. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-09-01] Reference
The author labels Fleming's creation a "snob" for his obsession with top-of-the-market brands, "with the result that in the later books Bond has arguably developed from connoisseur to fusspot.". From Wordnik.com. [The Work, Not the Author, Matters] Reference
But it would take a pair of economists from the University of Maryland to quantify “the Oprah effect” at the polls, to verify and certify that what she was able to do for that old fusspot Tolstoy was politically transferable. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman] Reference
There is one spot where I am going to go move a teensy bit of gravel or dirt to cover a tree's roots where they cross the path, and fill a rut that travels down the middle of the trail in one spot, (this is not a criticism! just me being a fusspot) but the whole trail is really lovely now. From Wordnik.com. [Living in Dryden: October 2004 Archives] Reference
And Runcimen, who was a very fine man, I thought, said Gowe was just an old fusspot and he -- he just wanted boys who did their Latin and Greek, and Orwell was rebellious and, you know, didn't care about doing the grammar and followed his own interests, and Gowe just considered him a problem. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation] Reference
Maybe i'm just a cranky, 33 year old fusspot that time has passed by. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Sometimes I really consider myself to be a fusspot when it comes to stress relief. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
I personally think it's a combination of the two, because in my case, I most definitely am a fusspot. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It's hard to believe that, even in her fragile state, Elise would want to live with such a socially inept fusspot. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
Well, as I've already admitted to being a fusspot I think it's okay for me to say that that guy sounds like a freak!. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I have also frequently had to lie to fusspot children about spilling "black rice", while swiftly clearing up a pile of droppings. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There is a black cat there who was a real fusspot, just wanted to be stroked, so we all stroke and fuss him and then we walk off. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
I had visions of Melanie turning into a fusspot who would just sit there with a sour, disapproving look on her face at mealtimes. From Wordnik.com. Reference
At worst, Brooks tries too hard to make his fusspot characters ingratiating, and their high-strung personalities start to taste like the same flavor of mush. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
What this means is that he's not an old fusspot clinging to outdated rules of grammar; neither is he an anything-goes endorser of unclear or ambiguous expression. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed] Reference
I don’t mean to be a fusspot, but I am worried about you. From Wordnik.com. [Her Fearful Symmetry] Reference
But annoy ONE fusspot on the tenure committee, and it’s bye-bye. From Wordnik.com. [Prof. Blogger « BuzzMachine] Reference
I confess I don’t have a lot of patience for fusspot arrangements. From Wordnik.com. [barley, corn and haricot vert salad | smitten kitchen] Reference
I guess I’m (1) not much of a foodie or (2) still the fusspot I was as a child. From Wordnik.com. [100 things about me] Reference
That crazy grin, the wild hair? it’s too much! and Bert was such a fusspot you just wanted to hug him!. From Wordnik.com. [Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » ‘Sesame Street’ Confirms Bert Is A ‘Mo’] Reference
I think I might be an eternal fusspot–one always proclaiming that it is everybody else that is wrong, everybody else that just doesn’t understand. From Wordnik.com. [Bramblies « Millicent and Carla Fran] Reference
As Don McLeod, subeditor and all-round fusspot know-it-all told him when he started on the Highland Gazette, “We’re a local weekly, here to publish local information—not some scandal-mongering rag from down south.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Is your hero an analytical fusspot?. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Getting the most from secondary characters in 3 steps] Reference
It will not bend to my fusspot will. From Wordnik.com. [quick zucchini sauté | smitten kitchen] Reference
My fusspot maidens were having tea just then. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Quartermain reads Margaret Christakos] Reference
"Old fusspot 'indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
"Oh, all right, then, fusspot. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
"You're a funny old fusspot you are, Amby. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
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