fuss over

verb

fussed over; fussing over; fusses over

: to pay a lot of attention to (someone or something) in a nervous or excited way

Everyone fussed over the baby.

He spent hours fussing over the details of the speech.

Examples of fuss over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yesterday, while driving my nine-year-old daughter to soccer practice, we once again got caught in one of these celebratory migrations, which prompted her to ask why there was always so much fuss over what amounted to the end of the school year. —Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 21 May 2026

Americans perhaps make a bit of a fuss over how good the food is in Paris, but Full Phil takes this notion to ridiculous extremes. —Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026

The batter comes together fast, and there’s no icing or glaze to fuss over—just a quick sift of powdered sugar. —Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 17 May 2026

With just a few ingredients and even fewer steps, this will make entertaining easy without the hassle of fussing over the oven all day and night. —Brennan Long, Southern Living, 9 May 2026

Rhymes for fuss over

• carryover
• changeover
• crossover
• cutover
• flashover
• hangover
• holdover
• layover
• leftover
• makeover
• moreover
• passover