[ UK /fˈʌspɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. thinks about unfortunate things that might happen
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How To Use fusspot In A Sentence

  • Big and burly bouncers guard the entrance and are fusspots (a rarity in Valencia), so make sure you are dressed to kill.
  • The main difference is that you brood while he bumbles, but that's a footnote for fusspots.
  • Ivan thinks the world of him but he's a terrific fusspot, and he trots to Patsy with every complaint. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
  • Jonathan Coy as a nervous fusspot displays a brow permanently and hilariously furrowed. Noises Off - review
  • I first read Franny and Zooey in my late 40's -- and was astonished at how fresh it seemed ... enchanting, in the best sense of that word -- and it was precisely what Kirsch finds objectionable (what a sad stuffy old fusspot!) -- a marvelous sense of the everyday ... the everyday as marvelous, as a child might discover it. Gratuitous
  • 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. The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman
  • I'm also working on a magnum opus, attacking poetry at every level of the class structure from the ghetto to poetry slams on up to the Library of Congress fusspots.
  • Or maybe his fusspot of a mother had talked about it being maroon. PROSPECT HILL
  • Then again, since it is the function and duty of a magazine to report newsworthy happenings as fully as possible, they cannot hold back some information because some fusspots might think that it is not in the public interest.
  • Call me a fusspot, but I don't see why the fire-fighting equipment couldn't have gone in the dressing table.
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