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Webster 1913 Edition

(fŭs)

Noun.

[Cf.

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

Byron.

Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of

fuss

or noise

Carlyle.

One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget.

[R.]

I am a

fuss

and I don’t deny it.

W. D. Howell.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Fussed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Fussing

To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Sir W. Scott.

Noun.

[allied perhaps to Gr. to blow or puff.]

A tumult; a bustle; but the word is vulgar.