Fussbudget

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  • noun. A person who fusses over trifles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A nervous, fidgety person.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot
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  • noun. thinks about unfortunate things that might happen
  • Word Usage
    "In the past, the President notoriously spent immense amounts of time poring over the, leading one exasperated congressman to describe her as a "fussbudget" (defined by the American Heritage dictionary as a "person who fusses over trifles."
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