Definition of "fuss"

fuss

/fʌs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural fusses
1. (countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
  Quotations
  Sickness did not last above a ten days; my poor wife zealously assiduous, and with a minimum of fuss or noise.
  1866, Thomas Carlyle, “Jane Welsh Carlyle”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Reminiscences, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1881, page 158
  “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
  But in the reader comments section beneath the FT piece, many couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “I’m surprised to see the FT reporting this sort of thing,” one person wrote.
  2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian‎
2. A complaint or noise; a scene.
3. An exhibition of affection or admiration.
verb
third-person singular simple present fusses, present participle fussing, simple past and past participle fussed
1. (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
2. (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
3. (intransitive, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
4. (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
5. (transitive) To pet.

Definition of "fuss"

fuss

noun

Quotations

verb