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fussbudgetry

fussbudgetry noun: the characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.

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
    • Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry.1991, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double

Forms of fussbudgetry

alternative formfuss-budgetry

Origin of fussbudgetry

From fussbudget + -ry.

Questions about fussbudgetry

What does fussbudgetry mean?
Fussbudgetry means the characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.
What part of speech is fussbudgetry?
Fussbudgetry is a noun.

Words near fussbudgetry in the dictionary

  1. fuss-budget
  2. fuss-budgetry
  3. fuss-budgets
  4. fussable
  5. fussbudget
  6. fussbudgetry
  7. fussbudgets
  8. fussbudgety
  9. fussbutton
  10. fussbuttons
  11. fussed

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