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fussingverbpresent participle of fuss to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelythe eldest daughter is always fussing that she gets stuck with all the chores around the house beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, croaking, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering(chiefly British), moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasmfans fussing over their favorite rock guitarist drooling, effusing, enthusing, gushing, raving, rhapsodizing, slobbering doting (on), fawningemoting to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevantthe picky eater who fusses over the arrangement of food on his plate or who won't eat the rice if it touches the salad carping, caviling(or cavilling), niggling, nitpicking, quibbling criticizing, faultingbeefing, bellyaching, bitching, complaining, crabbing, croaking, griping, grousing, growling, grumbling, kicking, kvetching, moaning, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowlingmurmuring, muttering splitting hairs applauding, commending, complimenting, praising, recommendingapproving, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superiorgiven to fussing over her father whenever she wants a favor or some ready cash apple-polishing, bootlicking, fawning, kowtowing, sucking (up), toadying, truckling drooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, wooingadulating, idolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, flattering, overpraising, soft-soapingcowering, cringing, groveling(or grovelling)abasing, debasing, demeaningdeferring, submitting, yielding currying favor, kissing up to despising, disdaining, scorninggibing(or jibing), jeering, scoffingbraving, challenging, defying to experience concern or anxietythere is no use in fussing over things that you can't control bothering, fearing, fretting, stewing, stressing, sweating, troubling, worrying agonizinglonging, pining, yearningchafingdespairing giving a hang(or caring a hang), sweating blood acceptingabiding, bearing, enduring, sticking out, stomaching, sustaining, taking, tolerating to trouble the mind of; to make uneasyyou shouldn't let a little thing like that fuss you agitating, ailing, alarming(also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying(or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexingbedeviling, haunting, plaguingabashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling, shaking updaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) allaying, alleviating, assuagingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating |