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fussiness

/fuhs-ee/US // ˈfʌs i //UK // (ˈfʌsɪ) //

烦躁,大惊小怪,烦躁不安,小题大做

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est.

    • : excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
    • : hard to satisfy or please: a fussy eater.
    • : elaborately made, trimmed, or decorated: All the bric-a-brac gave the room a fussy, cluttered look.
    • : full of details, especially in excess: His writing is so fussy I lose the thread of the story.

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Examples

  • Like some of the other prizes here, this legacy from when Azerbaijan was under Soviet rule is fussy going for the baker.

  • The best science gifts for kids over $50 will be educational, well made, not overly complicated and fussy, and allow for many hours of play and use.

  • Toddlers want to touch and push and pull, but they can get easily frustrated if something is too technical or fussy.

  • One day as we were going out for breakfast, she was extremely irritable and fussy that morning.

  • Of its options, she says Philodendron bipennifolium and Rhaphidophora tetrasperma aren’t “super fussy.”

  • In the era of Tea Party stunts and dramatic fan-based delays, the debate was moderately fussy.

  • It was nearing naptime and so the three hurried to grab groceries, worrying that the baby would get fussy after too long.

  • “Those kids are starting to be of legal drinking age,” McMahan says of once-fussy eaters who he hopes remain picky drinkers, too.

  • The fussy legal language complicates what is sometimes a life-or-death situation.

  • Last month a similarly fussy—if more PG—correction went viral.

  • Farewell, too, energetic and laborious dancer, my partner's middle-aged fussy cousin!

  • "I don't know," he muttered in the face of a fussy little woman, who jumped aside to let him pass.

  • We could get along with her all right; sometimes she is splendid, even if she is so fussy.

  • By calling fussy little strikes often enough I could have kept the profits close to the zero mark.

  • I wish my wife was not so fussy, though that is a kind of thing, Lady Eustace, that one has to expect from young wives.