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Definition of Fussiest
1. fussy [adj] - See also: fussy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fussiest
Literary usage of Fussiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, 1870-1879: With Comic Illustrations ...by Josh Billings by Josh Billings (1902)
"IO II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 '9 20 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 o Where water runs the fussiest,
... fussiest ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... in the midst of his apparent idleness and fashionable nonchalance, than the
fussiest and most perspiring advocate of the paper-duty repeal, ..."
3. A Winter in the West by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1835)
"The place is said to be regularly laid out; but the most business part of it—and
it is the fussiest little town in the world—looks as if the buildings had ..."
4. An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (1872)
"... that a good time was coming for her, and fell to dusting furniture, washing
cups, and making toast, the happiest, fussiest little housewife in the city. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1892)
"I had the misfortune to be an auditor of a Ip eated argument - between the three
smallest and fussiest of the men about the restaurant at which they were ..."
6. Campaigns of a Non-combatant: And His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend (1866)
"Without any exception, he was the " fussiest," most impertinent, most disagreeable
man that I ever knew. He always made a hero of himself in his reports, ..."
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