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Definition: Fuss |
FussNoun1. An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft". 2. An angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother". 3. Petty quarrel. 4. A rapid bustling commotion. Verb1. Worry unnecessarily of excessively. 2. Care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fuss" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Literature | Fuss Much ado about nothing. (Anglo-Saxon, fus, eager.) "So full of figure, so full of fuss, She seemed to be nothing but bustle." Hood: Miss Kilmansegg, part iii. stanza 12. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | FUSS. A confusion, a hurry, an unnecessary to do about trifles. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: FussSynonyms: ado (n), bicker (n), bickering (n), bother (n), bustle (n), dither (n), flap (n), flurry (n), hassle (n), hustle (n), pother (n), spat (n), squabble (n), stir (n), tiff (n), tizzy (n), trouble (n), fret (v), mother (v), niggle (v), overprotect (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling. |
Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste). | |
Agitation | Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus. |
Disapprobation | Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about. |
Excitability | Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow. |
Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport. | |
Haste | Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter. |
Importance | Make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece of work about, make much ado about; make much ado of,make much of. |
Lamentation | Complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate; (disapprove). |
Ostentation | Noun: ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fuss |
| English words defined with "fuss": abaft, aft, astern ♦ dither ♦ flap, Fussed, Fussing ♦ pother, Pudder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fuss": Bannière ♦ MILLER, WET PROCESS, Mountains of Mole-hills. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fuss": Fossick. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fuss" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Hungarian (play or pay!). |
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Screenplays | Fuss, fuss I think he like to scream at us . (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Seems like a lot of fuss has been made about that (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) After the fuss you made about getting left behind (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) You know, simple, direct, stake through the heart, no muss, no fuss. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) A pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death (Ocean's Eleven; writing credit: George Clayton Johnson; Jack Golden Russell) | |
Lyrics | I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler ("Summertime Blues"; performing artist: Eddie Cochran) I think it's that because I have seen all the fuss (I Go Blind; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) Always up in somebody's face tryin to fuss (Ghetto Girls; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) There's no need to fuss (Spies Like Us; performing artist: Paul McCartney) Cos we only act like children when we argue fuss and fight (If You Don't Know Me By Now; performing artist: Simply Red) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hogy utolérjenek! Fuss (1972) Fuss and Feathers (1918) | |
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![]() | A. bad egg. Fuss and feathers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Old Fuss and Feathers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Applaud; clap; clamor; fuss; encore; delighted; impressed. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | You never heard such a fuss. |
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| "Fuss" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.92% of the time. "Fuss" is used about 853 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.92% | 784 | 8,824 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.21% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.87% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 853 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fuss" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fuss | Last name | 400 | 22,275 |
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| Germany | eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co KGaa |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "fuss": a lot of fuss about ♦ a lot of fuss about nothing ♦ fuss a lot ♦ fuss about ♦ fuss and bother ♦ fuss and kerfufle ♦ fuss around ♦ fuss over ♦ fuss over smth. ♦ fuss round ♦ fuss up ♦ kick up a fuss ♦ make a fuss ♦ make a fuss about ♦ make a fuss of ♦ make a great fuss. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fuss": fuss-budget, fuss-free, fuss-pot. | |
Ending with "fuss": no-fuss. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fuss | 33 |
adam fuss | 7 |
fuss neill o | 6 |
fuss internet whats | 5 |
fuss grass sea | 4 |
fuss hair no style | 4 |
fuss fetish | 4 |
fuss neil o | 4 |
fuss troy | 3 |
cost fuss insurance low no uk | 2 |
erotik fuss | 2 |
diana fuss | 2 |
audio fuss | 2 |
fuss heel high | 2 |
cost fuss insurance low no | 2 |
fuss whats | 2 |
245 8 delicious fuss less no point point recipe simply winning | 2 |
charles fuss | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "fuss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, hustle, outbreak, pother, qualm, queasiness, queasy, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), nervozoj, merrem me çikërrima (niggle), bujë (furore, rage), ankth (anguish, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, dismay, distress, incubus, inquietude, jitters, nervosity, night-hag, nightmare, obsession, overanxiety, trepidation, uneasiness, unrest). (various references) | |
Arabic | هرج ومرج (astir, bedlam, helter-skelter, hubbub, hurly burly, pandemonium, shambles), ضجيج (crash, din, discord, horseplay, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, noisiness, racket, riptide, thunder), جادل (argue, contend, debate, join issue with, quibble, reason, talk over, urge), إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, sensation, stir, willies), إهتم أكثر, إهتاج (be agitated, be excited, be nervous, be upset, boil, effervesce, ferment, flurry, flutter, seethe, simmer), إطراء مفرط, أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), شكا (beef, complain, gripe, grouch, grouse, grudge, grumble, pity, plain, repine, squeal, wail, whimper, yell). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърдя (displease, incense, vex), суетя, суетене (ado, coil, fiddle-faddle, fidget, stir), щуране, тревожа (ail, alarm, disturb, exercise, perturb, put about, weigh on, worrit, worry), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), нервничене (fidget), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), дребна кавга, дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, nip, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry). (various references) | |
Chinese | 忙乱. (various references) | |
Czech | rozruch (agitation, backwash, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, hullabaloo, kick up, stir), rozèilovat se (fret), rambajz, rámus (din, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, pother, racket, roar, row, uproar), povyk (ado, ballyhoo, clamor, clamour, din, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, rampage, riot, row, rumpus, tussle, uproar), panika (panic, scare, stampede), nervozita (flap, flutter, jitters, nerves, nervousness). (various references) | |
Dutch | rompslomp (to-do), bedoening (to-do). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tedaĵoj, penigaĵoj (to-do). (various references) | |
Finnish | vouhottaa, touhu (bustle, flurry), hälinä (clamour, hubbub, noise, tumult). (various references) | |
French | tapage (fussiness), s'inquiéter, s'agiter, prêter une attention, plaindre, inciter, discuter, agitation. (various references) | |
German | lärm (breeze, commotion, din, dins, kerfuffle, noise, noisiness, racket, row, tumult), getue (ado, affectation, fussbig, to-do), aufheben (abolish, abrogate, annul, break, break off, cancel, cancel out, close, dissolve, do away with, keep, lever, lift, lift off, lift up, make up for, neutralize, offset, pick up, quash, raise, remove, repeal, rescind, reserve, resolve, reverse, revoke, save up, set aside, to abolish, to abrogate, to annul, to override, to pick up, to repeal, to rescind, to suspend, unmake, void). (various references) | |
Greek | φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fracas, hassle, hob, nuisance, pother, rowdiness, trouble). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יזע ות (fussiness), ל"טרי" (annoy, badger, bother, incommode, irk, obsess, pester, plague), שויץ (fussiness, showing off), "תרוצצות (clash, collision, hustle, legwork, running about, rushing around), "תר'שות יתר (dither), רעש ות (clamour, clangour, din, noisiness, rowdiness), רעש (din, noise, shock, stir, storm, tang, tumult, uproar). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsivaj (cry, hullabaloo, noise, racket, riot, to-do), fontoskodás (buckram, bumbledom, bustling, cockiness, fussiness, officiousness, pedantry, pragmatism, priggishness, self-importance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | percekcokan (argument, brawl, quarrel), kerecokan (excitement), kehebohan (ado, furor, stir), heboh (commotion, row, uproar), cincong. (various references) | |
Italian | trambusto (bustle, commotion, confusion, hustle, racket, stir, turmoil), smancerie (mawkisness), confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, carry on, chaos, clutter, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir), cancan (cancan, noise), brontolio (grumbling, murmur, muttering, rumble, rumbling), armeggiare (bustle, fumble, intrigue), agitarsi (agitate, bestir oneself, bustle, fidget, flounder, flutter, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'ぎ立てる (to make a fuss), 'ぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise), お構いなく (please don't fuss over me), 悪'ぎ (disorderly merrymaking, making an excessive fuss), 御構いなく (please don't fuss over me), 屁と火事はもとから'ぐ (it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest), "そ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, hitch, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, maybe, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, perhaps, possibly, prejudice, puritanical, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, stealthily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via), ちゃ"ばら " (kiss, make a fuss of, pamper, samurai movie, spoil), 捕 (a bit, be even, bicycle, calculating, capture, cheeky, child pickpocket, efficient, forgive a debt, make a fuss of, making something last, mismatched, nervy, pamper, seizure, shrewd, spoil, suffix for familiarperson, tiny, very small, weight-chain-pole weapon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おかまいなく (please don't fuss over me), さわぎたてる (to make a fuss), さわぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise), " わる (to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over), わるさわぎ (disorderly merrymaking, making an excessive fuss), へとかじはもとからさわぐ (it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest), ちゃほや (make a fuss of, pamper, spoil), ちやほや (make a fuss of, pamper, spoil). (various references) | |
Korean | 소란 (turbulence, turmoil). (various references) | |
Manx | musthaa (bustle, carry on, display, excitement, flap, fluster, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult), jannoo mooar jeh (cherish, flaunt, lionize), goaill er (fret, lament, undertake, undertake promise), foostyrey (fidget, fusspot, rouse), feiyal (delay, hang back, hinder, linger, procrastinate, wait), anvea (contention, perplexity, strife, turbulence, unease). (various references) | |
Norwegian | oppstyr, mase. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ussfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ficar nervoso, rebuliço (fussiness, stir, stirabout, to-do, uproar), preocupação exagerada, inquietar-se, excitar-se (seethe, take on), excitação (commotion, excitation, fidget, fire, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, freak-out, gale, passion, rampage, rave, raving, state, stew, thrill, transport, uproar, warmth), exasperar (aggravate, disgruntle, exasperate, incense, irritate, nettle, provoke, rile, thurify), exagerar (aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, enhance, exaggerate, exceed, magnify, out-top, overact, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overstate, overstep, put it on, romance, stretch, transvalue), espalhafato (fussiness, splurge), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), agitação (commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references) | |
Romanian | fâţâi (bustle, wag), fandosealã (affectation, bumptiousness, ceremony, finicalness, flirtation, haughtiness, jazz, to-do), fason (conventionality, cut, etiquette, fashion, sort), foi (bustle, fidget, hesitate), forfotã (bustle, clutter), forfoti (bustle, clutter, flutter, simmer), frãmânta (agitate, beat, brake, bustle, churn, debate, fret, knead, puddle, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torment, torture, worry), fremãta (Bate, bustle, murmur, roar, rustle, sough), harababurã (confusion, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, motley, muddle, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil, welter), aiurealã (babble, confusion, flurry, hubbub, muss, raving, rigmarole, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, twaddle), alai (attendance, attendants, concatenation, consequences, cortege, display, escort, followers, hubbub, retinue, show, showiness, suite, train), confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, shuffle, storm, tumble), agitaţie pentru nimicuri, hãlãlaie (hubbub, shindy, uproar), zgomot (ado, bruit, bustle, clamor, clamour, dash, din, hubbub, murmur, noise, peal, racket, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, to-do, tumult, uproar), horã (reel, row, shindy), marafet (artifice, trappings, trick, trifles, whims), persoanã sâcâitã, sâcâi cu lucruri mãrunte, sâcâi cu lucruri neimportante, scandal (affray, breach, breeze, flare up, fray, hubbub, noise, row, rumpus, scandal, scene, shame, shindy), se agita (agitate, billow, bustle, ferment, fluster, flutter, fret, hitch, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, tumble, vibrate, wag), tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, rattle, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar), tam-tam (hubbub, to-do), tapaj (ado, din, row, shindy, to-do), vânzoli, zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dispute, dust, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, discord, hubbub, hurly burly, jangle, noise, racket, rattle, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, to-do, tumult). (various references) | |
Russian | суматоха (bustle, clutter, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, jumble, kerfuffle, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, ruffle, rumpus, splutter, to-do, tumult, tumults, turmoil), суета (ado, bustle, bustling, kerfuffle, scurry, stir, to-do, vanity), суетиться (bustle, fidget, fidget with, make a fuss, trot about), сплав (alligation, alloy, drive, fusion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamajavati se (bustle about, fool around), probirati, nepotrebna zabrinutost, komešanje (stir), dizati larmu. (various references) | |
Spanish | fastidiar (annoy, badger, bother, bug, devil, hassle, importune, irk, nag, needle, pip, play up, tease, tick off, vex), alharacas, aspaviento, aspavientos, bulla (boisterousness, noise), buya, ceremonias trámites, agitarse (Bob, churn, convulse, fidget, flap, heave, ruffle, shake, surge, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up, tumble, twitter, wag, wave), escándalo (astonishment, commotion, disgrace, furor, furore, noise, notoriety, outrage, row, scandal, scene, sense of shock, uproar), tejemaneje (bustle, goings on, monkey business), hazañería, jaleo (commotion, dance, din, jumble, pandemonium, racket, row, shouting, to-do), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), molestar (annoy, badger, bar, bedevil, bother, commove, discommode, distract, disturb, estop, fag, faze, fret, harass, hassle, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, inflict, inhibit, intrude, irritate, molest, nettle, persecute, pester, prevent, put about, put out, put upon, tease, trouble, worry), preocuparse (bother, care, mind, trouble, upset, worry), protesta (insurrection, jeer, moan, objection, obtestation, protest, protestation, remonstrance, wail), conmoción (commotion, concussion, earthquake, ferment, shake up, shock, stir). (various references) | |
Swedish | väsen (ado, being, din, entity, essence, essentiality, fiber, fibre, noise, personality, rat race, to-do), fjäsk (bustle, captation, flannels, hurry, servility), bråk (ado, bother, brawl, din, disturbance, dust-up, flare up, fracas, fraction, fray, hubbub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, incident, kick up, miff, noise, rag, row, ruction, rumpus, trouble, tumult, unpleasantness, uproar, upset). (various references) | |
Thai | ความอึกทึก (boisterousness). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaygara koparmak (clamor, clamour, cut up rough, make a fuss, make a noise, squall), yaygara (bluster, clamor, clamour, hoi polloi, hoo-ha, hullabaloo, shouting, shriek), velvele (ballyhoo, hoi polloi, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfufle, noise, pucker, racket, riot), titizlenmek (be fussy about, cross the t's, split, strain a gnat), telaşlandırmak (alarm, excite, flurry, fluster, hasten, put in a flurry, ruffle), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), ince eleyip sık dokumak (be too fussy, be too particular, go over, go over smth. with a fine comb, go through, niggle, pick holes in, pick over, refine, scrutinize, sift, split, split hairs), gereksiz yere telâşlanmak, üzerine titremek (coddle, dote, spoonfeed), özen göstermek (care, cross one's t's, elaborate, make a point of, nurse, take care, take care of, take pains), ıvır zıvır bolluğu. (various references) | |
Turkmen | izzildemek (make a fuss, moan, whine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надмірно піклуватися, метушня (ado, alarm, bustle, buzz, clutter, flurry, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stir, stirabout, to-do, turmoil, whirl), метушитися (bustle, clutter, fidget, fluster, fuss about, scurry, trot about), збуджений стан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự rối rít, sự om sòm (noisiness, riotousness, rough house, row-de-dow, shindy, to-do, tumult), sự nhặng xị sự quan trọng hoá, sự nhăng nhít, sự "n o (noisiness, row-de-dow, shemozzle, tumult). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffwdanu (bustle), ffwdan (ado, bustle, flurry), ystw+r (bustle, noise, stir), trybestod (bustle, commotion), helynt (ado, affair, bother, trouble). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | satage, satagebat, satagite. (various references) |
| Danish | 1000-Modern | fjas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fuss": fussbudget, fussbudgets, fussbudgety, fussed, fusser, fussers, fusses, fussier, fussiest, fussily, fussiness, fussinesses, fussing, fusspot, fusspots, fussy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fuss": overfussy, unfussily, unfussy. (additional references) | |
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"Fuss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: efus, fasc, fass, Fassi, Ffoss, fiss, fos, fosso, Fpsas, fs, fses, fss, fsss, fsu, fuask, fuc, fuds, fugs, fuhs, fuis, Fuls, fus, fusa, fusas, fush, fusk, fusr, fusse, fust, fuys, fuz, fuzes, Nfsu, ufs, uss, ussf, wuss, zuss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fuss" (pronounced fu"s) |
| 2 | -u" s | bus, Buss, cuss, discuss, plus, pus, suss, thus, truss, us, wuss. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: fuses, fussy, surfs. | |
+2 letters: fusees, fusels, fusils, fussed, fusser, fusses, scuffs, scurfs, sluffs, snafus, snuffs, stuffs, sulfas. | |
+3 letters: defuses, effuses, favuses, fescues, fetuses, ficuses, fissure, flushes, focuses, fucoses, fucuses, fulness, furless, fusains, fuscous, fusions, fussers, fussier, fussily, fussing, fusspot, fustics, infuses, refuses, russify, scruffs, shadufs, subfusc, suffers, suffuse, sulfids, sulfurs, sunfast, sunfish, surfers, unfussy. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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