1
as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
sat next to an insufferable fusser, who whined during the entire bus trip
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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
a natural fusser who has never had a glimmer of gratitude for anything done for him
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Noun
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Who’s going to climb over all the other crabs and inevitably kill them in order to survive?—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025 -
The lobster and crab on a baguette at Linden in Los Angeles is a knuckle sandwich that’s also a knuckle sandwich.—
Andy Wang,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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An accident led her to deliver her baby prematurely.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Organized in themes like the baby doll and the slip dress, the book relates fashion to culture, and offers a picture of an industry—and a city—that operated at a different pace.—
Vogue Runway,
Vogue,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sometimes an analyst’s downgrade will wreck an uptrend and hand the joystick over to the bears.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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New Mountain bounced off the COVID bear-market bottom much like other BDCs.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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So energy from pedaling is recovered at the crank and converted into electricity to drive a hub motor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Aug. 2025
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The ensemble cast members are game and deliver spirited, crank-up-the-volume performances, notably the vamping about de Armas and the unravelling and often unclad Law.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Fusser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusser. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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