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Frequent complainer
Answer for the clue "Frequent complainer ", 10 letters:
fussbudget
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Word definitions for fussbudget in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"nervous, figety person," 1884, from fuss (n.) + budget (n.). One of several similar formulations around this time: Compare fussbox (1901); fusspot (1906). From 1960s associated with the character Lucy in the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot n. One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fussbudget \fuss"budg*et\ n. a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance. Syn: worrier, fusspot, worrywart.
Usage examples of fussbudget.
He was a persnickety old fussbudget and, in my opinion, probably Republican.
Romeo and Juliet: a good-hearted fussbudget, a woman who spoke her piece but knew her place.
Syrian gunners and their wives did not curse him for a fussbudget and mock him for an impractical philosopher.
She might have had the body of a little girl, but there was something of the fussbudget spinster in her as well.
He was a fussbudget, pink of rounded face and wearing old-fashioned pince-nez glasses on a bulbous little nose.
The man struck him as a bit of a fussbudget, with his clipboard in one hand and pencil shifted awkwardly back and forth between handshakes.
An entire battalion of nitpickers and fussbudgets would be hard-pressed to find a speck of dust in this room.
There were diverse personalities alive within the collective boundaries of the plasma cloud: long-winded bores, excited explorers, passionate visionaries, skeptics, cranks, poets, philosophers, fussbudgets, free thinkers, reactionaries, radicals, and scientists.