as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things as a professional gardener with a well-heeled clientele, he's used to dealing with fusspots

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Recent Examples of fusspot 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 One might be forgiven for also thinking that the identification is not so much between the audience and the killer as between Fincher, who is known as something of a filmmaking fusspot, and his anal-retentive central character. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023 So many people roll their eyes as soon as an old fusspot like me starts banging on about backing up. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021 The strongest performances — Dan Hiatt’s fusspot Polonius, Lozano’s regally detached Gertrude — combine color with clarity. Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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Noun
  • Family welcomes arrival of new baby Evie 'The Bear' Season 4 cast Jeremy Allen White returns as head chef Carmy, a role that has won him two consecutive Emmys for.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • What does this research mean for parents and their babies?
    Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • 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

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“Fusspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusspot. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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