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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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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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Start your meal with a basket of mini crab cakes, then pick an under-the-sea entrée ranging from jerked tuna tacos to a North Carolina shrimp burger to a seafood platter with your choice of shrimp, scallops, flounder, clam strips, catfish, chicken tenders, or crab cakes.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2025 -
Summer will bring bay scallops still in their shells, along with soft-shell crabs.—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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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
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President Gerald Ford holds a Vietnamese baby on an Air Force bus in California in April 1975.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Despite initially remaining hot on the man's heels for a moment, the bear eventually gave up the chase.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, in California, the logo is a golden bear with a star in the middle and in Texas, the Real ID is a golden circle with a white star at the top right corner.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Apr. 2025
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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
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Kitchen Accessories Collectible kitchen accessories can range from regular-use items like beautiful copper pots to more decorative items, like vintage bread boxes and hand crank mixers.—
Maggie Gillette,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, Barnes was a crank of operatic grandiosity—thin-skinned, bellicose, distrustful, fickle, and vindictive.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Fusser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusser. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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