Definition of "fusspot" [fusspot]

• See fussbudget. (noun)

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• "I first read Franny and Zooey in my late 40's -- and was astonished at how fresh it seemed ... enchanting, in the best sense of that word -- and it was precisely what Kirsch finds objectionable (what a sad stuffy old fusspot!) -- a marvelous sense of the everyday ... the everyday as marvelous, as a child might discover it."
• "The author labels Fleming's creation a "snob" for his obsession with top-of-the-market brands, "with the result that in the later books Bond has arguably developed from connoisseur to fusspot.""
• "Jonathan Coy as a nervous fusspot displays a brow permanently and hilariously furrowed."