How To Use Fusspot In A Sentence
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Big and burly bouncers guard the entrance and are fusspots (a rarity in Valencia), so make sure you are dressed to kill.
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The main difference is that you brood while he bumbles, but that's a footnote for fusspots.
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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
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Jonathan Coy as a nervous fusspot displays a brow permanently and hilariously furrowed.
Noises Off - review
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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
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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
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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.
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Or maybe his fusspot of a mother had talked about it being maroon.
PROSPECT HILL
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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.
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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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As the chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board, he is in a sense a professional fusspot, paid to be wary.
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Josh is no fusspot about what Val wears as long as she's there, but Val just likes to look nice for the sake of looking nice.
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The power to discriminate makes Virgo the sign of the food fusspot, the nutritionist and the restaurant critic.
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He is also surrounded by a high-quality cast including Michelle Dockery as an angst-ridden Ophelia, Hugh Ross as a fusspot Polonius and Colin Tierney as a likable Horatio.
Hamlet
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Dictators are often fusspots about food, and Mussolini, like Hitler, was one.
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The old fusspot doesn't want a single spot in front of the pub.
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Sure, even the most ornery fusspot will come across something he likes when perusing the coverage, but for the most part the stuff that emerges seems to fall under one of three categories:
Archive 2010-09-01
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As a game it can be a hoot, but there are occasions when it becomes no laughing matter, usually when some fusspot with a bad dress sense decides to invoke a screamingly ridiculous rule instead of concentrating on his short game.
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Mine is a fusspot round the house and is obsessed with things being ironed correctly!
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‘Of course I'll be alright, fusspot,’ she said teasingly.
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It is not beyond the realms that within a generation or two punctuation (not to mention spelling) will be regarded as the old-fashioned preserve of fusspots who have no idea how to communicate clearly.
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They used to be called fitters, and conjured up images of fusspots, who toiled away in dark workshops designing and constructing oil-covered dirty machines for industry.
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Interestingly, a couple of teachers who partially reversed this effect were a chemistry teacher who was an evangelical Christian – and a prim fusspot – and a math teacher who quietly subverted the establishment efforts to Christianise the school population.
Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat
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During the day the fusspot habits of a lifetime prevent real discovery.
Silence
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However, she is played as such a little fusspot and gossip that she injects the women's scenes with a lot of humour.
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Well, we have words for people like that: nitpickers, fusspots, pettifoggers.
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It is no place for people who can't handle the occasional snoot full of dust or worse, or for fusspots who must work and stay clean at the same time.
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The fusspot in me appreciates the fusspot in him.
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This works amazingly for vegans, lactose intolerants, and sundry fusspots.
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She complains that Toby is a fusspot and that no one seems to trust her.
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But who'd be the uptight fusspot who, to preserve their shagpile, makes their guests feel exposed?
Times, Sunday Times
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The author labels Fleming's creation a "snob" for his obsession with top-of-the-market brands, "with the result that in the later books Bond has arguably developed from connoisseur to fusspot.
The Work, Not the Author, Matters
