Fuss
noun
Too much worry or excitement about something unimportant.
She made a big fuss about losing her keys
Often appears as...
- make a fuss
- big fuss
verb
To give too much attention or care to someone or something.
She always fusses over her children
Often appears as...
- fuss over
- fuss about
noun
A worried or unhappy state that causes unnecessary hurry or excitement.
There was a lot of fuss about his appointment
Often appears as...
- create a fuss
- cause a fuss
noun
Too much worry or excitement about something unimportant.
She made a big fuss about losing her keys
Often appears as...
- make a fuss
- big fuss
verb
To give too much attention or care to someone or something.
She always fusses over her children
Often appears as...
- fuss over
- fuss about
noun
A worried or unhappy state that causes unnecessary hurry or excitement.
There was a lot of fuss about his appointment
Often appears as...
- create a fuss
- cause a fuss
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Unimportant Matters
Use 'fuss' when referring to excessive concern over trivial issues.
He always creates a fuss about which socks to wear.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Often Praise
'Fuss' usually implies annoyance or negativity, not usually positive excitement.
Her constant fuss about the decorations agitated everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Reaction Likely
When someone 'makes a fuss', it can prompt irritation in others.
The customer made such a fuss that the manager was called.
Pro Tip 1/3Unimportant Matters
Use 'fuss' when referring to excessive concern over trivial issues.
He always creates a fuss about which socks to wear.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Often Praise
'Fuss' usually implies annoyance or negativity, not usually positive excitement.
Her constant fuss about the decorations agitated everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Reaction Likely
When someone 'makes a fuss', it can prompt irritation in others.
The customer made such a fuss that the manager was called.
Pro Tip 1/3Unimportant Matters
Use 'fuss' when referring to excessive concern over trivial issues.
He always creates a fuss about which socks to wear.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Often Praise
'Fuss' usually implies annoyance or negativity, not usually positive excitement.
Her constant fuss about the decorations agitated everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Reaction Likely
When someone 'makes a fuss', it can prompt irritation in others.
The customer made such a fuss that the manager was called.
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Our failing schools....
We know health services matter. You know, we provide health services and people are always fussing at me about, you know, because I'm all into accountability and data and all of that good stuff, but we do health services, and I have to raise a lot of money. People used to say when they'd come fund us,
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Adventures in...
set things into context. This is me when I was two with my older brother Tom, and as you can see, I wasn't always interested in wildlife. Tom is holding an alligator in his hand and I wasn't that fussed. My mum used to make me and my three brothers wear matching outfits on days out.
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Reintroducing The...
world so i'm making a fuss of him pushing him around and letting him feel his feet and then he'll go back outside and then it'll be hands off you won't have any fingers to nibble the next stage of colwin's rehabilitation will be hands off from the team when he moves to his
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Ariel Garten: Know...
we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first Ourselves. Much of the time we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves out into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
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How Finding This Human...
And for a discipline as used to making a fuss about one tooth or finding a jaw, that really was quite traumatizing to the paleoanthropological community. You see, for decades we'd believed the story that the human fossils were as rare as hens' teeth,
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Exploring other...
and wondering what all the fuss is about. In fact, there could be whole other four-dimensional worlds beyond our detection, hidden from us forever by the nature of our perception. Doesn't that blow your little spherical mind?
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Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert. You could say, well, it doesn't look very different from when he started. What's all the fuss about? In fact, Chris was worried and said,
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Subsistence Living PIPE...
shelf a lot of people make a lot of fuss about way I live I think that it so far I didn't like it I wouldn't do this this doesn't bother me I like being outside it's a nice life
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
don't try as is with everything in life you will never know will you stays the pen fuss cool let us head back out mm-hmm well while I look for something
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How to disrupt...
difficult means not easy to deal with or to manage characterized by causing hardship or problems a difficult person makes a fuss for no reason she's
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Our failing schools....
We know health services matter. You know, we provide health services and people are always fussing at me about, you know, because I'm all into accountability and data and all of that good stuff, but we do health services, and I have to raise a lot of money. People used to say when they'd come fund us,
Video examples
Adventures in...
set things into context. This is me when I was two with my older brother Tom, and as you can see, I wasn't always interested in wildlife. Tom is holding an alligator in his hand and I wasn't that fussed. My mum used to make me and my three brothers wear matching outfits on days out.
Video examples
Reintroducing The...
world so i'm making a fuss of him pushing him around and letting him feel his feet and then he'll go back outside and then it'll be hands off you won't have any fingers to nibble the next stage of colwin's rehabilitation will be hands off from the team when he moves to his
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Ariel Garten: Know...
we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first Ourselves. Much of the time we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves out into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
Video examples
How Finding This Human...
And for a discipline as used to making a fuss about one tooth or finding a jaw, that really was quite traumatizing to the paleoanthropological community. You see, for decades we'd believed the story that the human fossils were as rare as hens' teeth,
Video examples
Exploring other...
and wondering what all the fuss is about. In fact, there could be whole other four-dimensional worlds beyond our detection, hidden from us forever by the nature of our perception. Doesn't that blow your little spherical mind?
Video examples
Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert. You could say, well, it doesn't look very different from when he started. What's all the fuss about? In fact, Chris was worried and said,
Video examples
Subsistence Living PIPE...
shelf a lot of people make a lot of fuss about way I live I think that it so far I didn't like it I wouldn't do this this doesn't bother me I like being outside it's a nice life
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
don't try as is with everything in life you will never know will you stays the pen fuss cool let us head back out mm-hmm well while I look for something
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How to disrupt...
difficult means not easy to deal with or to manage characterized by causing hardship or problems a difficult person makes a fuss for no reason she's
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.
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Samantha Bee
American Comedian
I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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La La Anthony
American Entertainer
Comfort is important. I wanna put jeans on and kind of forget about them unless someone is giving me a compliment on how they look. You don't want to be fussing all day, especially as a working woman or a mom running around with kids.
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Audrey Hepburn
British Actress
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.
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Zola Budd
South African Athlete
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Lily Tomlin
American Actress
I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.
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Wislawa Szymborska
Polish Poet
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
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Upamanyu Chatterjee
Indian Public Servant
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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Aleister Crowley
English Critic
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.
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Samantha Bee
American Comedian
I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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La La Anthony
American Entertainer
Comfort is important. I wanna put jeans on and kind of forget about them unless someone is giving me a compliment on how they look. You don't want to be fussing all day, especially as a working woman or a mom running around with kids.
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Audrey Hepburn
British Actress
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.
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Zola Budd
South African Athlete
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Lily Tomlin
American Actress
I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.
Quote examples
Wislawa Szymborska
Polish Poet
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
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Upamanyu Chatterjee
Indian Public Servant
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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Aleister Crowley
English Critic
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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