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fuss-budgetry

fuss-budgetry is the alternative form of fussbudgetry.

Meaning of fussbudgetry

Noun

fussbudgetry (uncountable)

  1. (Canada, US) The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.
    • All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.1984, Bernard H. Haggin, Music and ballet, 1973-1983, page 202

Questions about fuss-budgetry

What is fuss-budgetry the alternative form of?
Fuss-budgetry is the alternative form of fussbudgetry.

Words near fuss-budgetry in the dictionary

  1. fuss
  2. fuss and feathers
  3. fuss around
  4. fuss over
  5. fuss-budget
  6. fuss-budgetry
  7. fuss-budgets
  8. fussable
  9. fussbudget
  10. fussbudgetry
  11. fussbudgets

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