Fussy

Definition: Fussy

Fussy

Adjective

1. Perversely irritable.

2. Overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design".

3. Exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fussy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Note: Fussy \Fuss"y\, adjective. [Comparative Fussier; superl Fussiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fussy

Activity

Bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken.

Excitability

Unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing; Verb:

Haste

Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.

Misjudgment

Narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini_tre; bigoted; (obstinate); crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid; credulous; warped.

Crosswords: Fussy

He's very fussy about his drums, you know. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

He was always very fussy. (Play It Again, Sam; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Curing Infant Colic: Seven Minute Program for Soothing the Fussy Baby (reference)

• Dr. Paula's Good Nutrition Guide for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Answers to Parent's Most Common Questions Plus Help for Coping with Fussy Eaters (reference)

• Fun Foods for Fussy Kids: Great Things to Make & Eat (reference)

• Little Critter's: The Fussy Princess (Big Golden Books) (reference)

• The Fussy Angel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fussy Ghost (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Discomfort from gas or constipation might make them fussy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "fussy": be fussy about ♦ be too fussy ♦ fussy person ♦ he is very fussy about. Additional references.

Ending with "fussy": non-fussy, over-fussy.

Albanian

nazeli (fastidious, finicking, finicky), i ngarkuar (charged, commissioner, hot, laden, loaded, procurator), i bezdisshëm (annoying, bothersome, grating, haunting, intrusive, irksome, painful, pesky, troublous, trying, vexatious), gërnjar (bitchy, carping, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, grouch, grouchy, grouse, grouser, grumbler, nag, nagger, nagging, peevish, pettish, petulant, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, wrangler). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متطلب عناية, ‏نيق (dainty, fidgety, finical, finicky, precise, prissy, sticky), ‏سريع الإهتياج (inflammable, temperamental), ‏شدد على التفاصيل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

суетлив, претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, hairsplitting, little, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, small, small minded, trivial). (various references)

Chinese 

挑�", 囉 (subordinate in a gang of bandits, talkative). (various references)

Czech

vyparádìný, vybíravý (choosey, choosy, fastidious, finical, finicky, finnic, nice, particular), podráždìný (edgy, fretful, grumpy, peevish, resentful, uptight, waspish), pedantský (donnish, finicky, hairsplitting, meticulous, pedantic, prim), nervózní (high strung, highly strung, ill tempered, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overstrung, overwrought, tense, unsettled, uptight), malicherný (narrow minded, niggling, parish pump, peddling, pettifogging, piddling, punctilious, sleeveless, small, small minded), hnidopišský, úzkostlivý (anxious, meticulous, precise, uneasy). (various references)

Finnish

turhantarkka (fastidious, overparticular, pedantic, too particular). (various references)

French

très orné, très énervé, tarabiscoté, maniaque (fussy person), méticuleux, difficile. (various references)

German

heikel (awkward, choosy, delicate, difficult, fussily, nice, particular, pernickety, queasily, queasy, scabrous, scabrously, thorny, tickling, ticklish, tricky). (various references)

Greek 

γκρινιάρησ (cantankerous, crabbed, fault finder, grouch, grouchy, growler, mutterer, nagger, pettish, snarler, snarling, sorehead), ματαιόσχολοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מקפי�" בקט� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

fontoskodó (bumptious, bustling, busybody, consequential, officious, owlish, pedant, pompous, pragmatic, pragmatical, prissy, self-important, to put on a consequential air), túl díszes (florid), nyűgös (fretful, grouchy, peevish, testy, tetchy), kicsinyeskedő (niggling, punctilious, to be interfering), csicsás (tawdry), cikornyás (arabesque, highfaluting, redundant), aggodalmaskodó (uneasy, uptight), aggodalmas (agonized, solicitous). (various references)

Indonesian

cerewet (catious, choosy, finicky, fret), celopar (finicky, garrulous). (various references)

Italian

schizzinoso (choosey, choosy, squeamish), puntiglioso (obstinate, stubborn), meticoloso (captious, carping, correct, fastidious, finickly, meticulous, nagging, particular, pedantic, punctilious, scrupulous), esigente (demanding, exacting, exactingly, exigent, finicky, particular), agitato (agitated, haywire, hectic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, overwrought, restive, restless, troubled, turbulent, upset, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煩い (agony, loud, noisy, vexation, worry), �"月蝿い (loud, noisy), 気忙しい (fidgety, restless), 喧しい (noisy, strict), �"き使う (for sure, i.e., make a big deal out of nothing, move stealthily, slime mold, sneakily, that is, to distort, to force, to strain, to work someone hard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きぜわしい (fidgety, restless), うるさい (loud, noisy), �"せ�"せ (make a big deal out of nothing), やかましい (noisy, strict). (various references)

Manx

foostyragh (fidgety), fillosheragh (fanciful, fancy). (various references)

Norwegian

masete, kresen (fastidious). (various references)

Pig Latin

ussyfay

Portuguese

nervoso (agitated, ajar, bustling, fidgety, hysterical, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on edge, restive, skittish, tremulant, tremulous, uptight), irrequieto (agog, bolter, bustling, impish, restive, skittish), intrincado (knotty, perplexed, puzzling), inquieto (agitated, anxious, bustling, disquiet, fidgety, frantic, fretful, nervous, on edge, preoccupied, qualmish, restive, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), espalhafatoso (bustling, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, noisy, staring, tawdry), difícil (arduous, cornered, cramped, difficile, difficult, go-ahead, hard, inconvenient, kid-glove, knotty, labored, laboured, nice, painful, pernickety, ponderous, puzzling, rugged, thankless, thorny, ticklish, tough, tricky, trying, well-made), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic), atarantado, agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references)

Romanian

sâcâitor (annoying, busy, dragging, naggy, pestering, trying, worrying), sâcâit, nervos (fidgety, hysterical, ill natured, impatient, impatiently, irritably, irritated, jumpy, nervous, nervously, nervy, neurotic, overwrought, sinewy), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), agitat (agitated, agog, angry, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, snappish, tempestuous, unsettled). (various references)

Russian 

суетливый (bustling, fidgety, pernickety), нервный (edgy, high-strung, jittery, jumpy, nervious, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, wrought-up), аляповатый (awkward, coarse, crude, harsh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sitničarski. (various references)

Spanish

quisquilloso (cantankerous, pernickety, persnickety, pettifogging, petty, spiky, squeamish, touchy), nimio (niggling), meticuloso (accurate, meticulous, precise, scrupulous, thorough), exigente (demanding, exacting, exigent, particular, strict), delicado (daintier, dainty, dead, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, finicky, frail, hard to please, hard to speak, hypersensitive, kid glove, killed, particular, polite, refined, sharp, squeamish, subtile, subtle, tenderly, too sensitive, very sensitive), con muchos ringorrangos, ñoño (characterless, namby-pamby, senile, spineless). (various references)

Swedish

kinkig (choosey, difficult, discriminated, fastidious, Kittle, parlous, particular, pernickety, petulant, spiny, squeamish, testing, tricky). (various references)

Thai

จุกจิกจู้จี้. (various references)

Turkish

zor beğenen (choosy, difficult, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, queasy), yaygaracı (blatant, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, squaller), titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, niminy-piminy, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, scrupulous, squeamish, touchy), telaşlı (bustling, discomposedly, disconcerted, disconcerting, excitable, excited, feverish, flurried, hectic, hurried, uptight), mızmız (crab, crybaby, grouchy, hesitant, kicker, pernickety, picky, querulous, sluggish), detaycı (hypercritical, niggling). (various references)

Turkmen 

talapkдr (exacting, particular). (various references)

Ukrainian

недоладний (awkward, off-key, slouch), метушливий (bustling, fidgety, old womanish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kiểu cách (euphuistic, fashion, frill, lardy-dardy, mannered, precious, preciously), hay rối rít; hay nhắng nhít, hay om sòm, hay nhặng xị; hay quan trọng hoá cầu kỳ. (various references)

Welsh

ffwdanus (fidgety, flurried). (various references)

curiosa, curiosae, curiose, curiosius, curiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "fussy": overfussy, unfussy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fussy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fassi, Fessey, fissy, fisy, Fossi, fossy, fosy, fss, fsss, Fsyn, fulsy, fursy, fus, fushy, fusk, fusse, Fussey, fusy, fuzey, ussy, usy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fuss.

-3 letters: us.

+2 letters: fussily, russify, unfussy.

+3 letters: synfuels.

+4 letters: bodysurfs, dyestuffs, overfussy, pussyfoot, sulfinyls, sulfonyls, sulfuryls, unfussily.

+5 letters: blissfully, joyfulness, pussyfoots, russifying.

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