English Language & Usage Asked on April 30, 2021
Lucy from Charles Schultz’s Peanuts strip is often described as a ‘fussbudget’, for example here: ‘Lucy: Fussbudget to Feminist‘. What is a British English equivalent to ‘fussbudget’?
Fussbudget noun US informal, old-fashioned.
(UK fusspot)
a person who is often not satisfied and complains about things that are not important: "I can't eat this meat - it's too tough." "Stop being such a fussbudget and eat your dinner!"
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Fussbox is another AmE variant:
(Southeastern U.S.)
a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person Also called: fussbudget
(Collins Dictionary)
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