as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things a customer who's a real fussbudget about wanting her food very hot

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Recent Examples of fussbudget But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher. Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019 The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way. Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fussbudget
Noun
  • President Gerald Ford holds a Vietnamese baby on an Air Force bus in California in April 1975.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Inside are nestled a half-dozen standard-size dumplings of your choice, like nothing so much as a clutch of tiny, steamy babies, with a few drifts of black pepper freshly ground over the top.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • However, this trait can appear as a stickler for perfection, precision, fusspot, formalist, nitpicker, pedantic, and fastidious.
    Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024

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“Fussbudget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fussbudget. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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