Crossword clues for fussy
fussy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fussy \Fuss"y\, a. [Compar. Fussier; superl. Fussiest.] Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Not at all fussy about his personal appearance.
--R. G.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1831, from fuss (n.) + -y (2). Related: Fussily; fussiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 anxious or particular about petty details. 2 Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of baby).
WordNet
adj. perversely irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered]
overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" [syn: busy]
exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, particular]
Wikipedia
Fussy is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.
"Fussy" is the first single by Australian pop rock band End of Fashion, from their second album, Book of Lies. It was released on 30 August 2008 on EMI Music.
It was the band's first release in over two years. Justin Burford describes "Fussy" as "the struggle between the light and dark sides of human personality". The Vine Magazine described it as "sultry backing vocals, Spanish trumpet and rhythmic acoustic guitar, 'Fussy’ is the perfect way to reintroduce End Of Fashion into the musical fray". Dwarf Magazine described it as "starting with much gusto and energy, the drum beat almost like riding a horse with the horns adding a bit of excitement during the journey".
Despite being added to radio station playlists around Australia within weeks of its release the single peaked at #47 on the Australian Singles charts. Burford later attributed this to the fact that national youth broadcaster, Triple J, refused to play the song on-air. "Our lead single, "Fussy" was even openly derided on air by Richard Kingsmill as ‘just another pop release’. Apparently this was before pop was declared no longer a dirty word on the j’s. This, I might add was the ONLY time that song was ever played on this station." - Justin Burford
Usage examples of "fussy".
She may later become one of the babies and toddlers who is anxious, fussy, and difficult to soothe.
Mothers of fussy, uncomfortable infants tend to worry a lot about spoiling because their babies require enormous 28 29 We urge Jessica not to continue trying to go it alone.
I have noted in you, my Liberalis, and as it were touched with my hand a feeling of fussy anxiety not to be behindhand in doing what is your duty.
The suspicion, however, did exist among those who like to ignore the obvious and magnify the remote, and throughout the negotiations the hand of Great Britain was weakened, as her adversary had doubtless calculated that it would be, by an earnest but fussy and faddy minority.
Not the richest part, to be sure, but Holk and his men are not fussy looters.
He smiled at Bones, who after all his fussy performance over making up the drink was 80 starting to look smug, and then eyed the floor where his own julep had landed.
There was room for about fifty people in the long, flat building, and Rees, overwhelmed by self-consciousness, trailed the fussy Scientist down an aisle between two rows of simple pallets.
The front windows looked out over a far-reaching spread of green glades and valleys, and tumbled hills clothed with forests--a noble solitude unvexed by the fussy world.
She turned her beatific smile on a very irritated ambassador as Weall put his question in his high, fussy voice.
It was tiny, the kind of beruffled, fussy thing little girls carry at Easter, and Esperanza was probably not its original owner.
Through his fussy courtroom manner, Molto is unable to contain a discordant element: distaste for Eddgar.
It tidied its parroty plumage and aligned its antigravity primaries with fussy movements, then lifted its tail to splatter the ledge beneath the post.
She stood, looked around at the ring of tazukli, the two plants shaped stark and elegant next to the fussy prolixity of the others, a sigh her sole farewell to a project that would have given her much pleasure.
He proved to be a fussy eater, scorning most of the dishes because of their spicy flavor, but Zacharias had suffered hunger too many times to let food go to waste.
A couple of mining magnates called Carbonate Ned Cartier and Telluride Tommy Gordon blew in, well oiled, after the management had asked them to leave a fussier establishment.