29 Verbs to Use for the Word fussing
You're going to stop making a fuss over me and begin to make a fuss over your country.
She hated fuss, anything worrying, agitating. ...
Mother and Polly, I mean; of course we men don't mind, but we don't want a fuss.
Well, they used to go out and stand and watch him and laugh at him prancing around and kicking up a fuss at the sight of 'em.
Well, I only hope Henshaw has not been playing the fool, or worse, and caused all this fuss for nothing.
"Racey hasn't got the guts to pick a fuss with a pack rat.
Our trial went on, until one morning I heard a great fuss in the house, the madam calling for the yard man to come and tie my wife, as she could not manage her.
And there's nothing Gard'ner does will drive them back; "Why, they'll choke up those roof-gutters if they start this nesting fuss; They've got a house," he says, "so I don't see" No, he doesn't know the secret, and there's no one does butus, All the pigeons, and the fairy-folk and ME!
And I remembered the fuss you made about the bills last time.
He says some thinks the moonshiners have taken him in mistake for a revenuer; and some believe it was robberyfor his watch and money; and Mr. Hardwick is blaming it on the Groner crowd that raised up such a fuss when Lura Dawson died in the hospital here.
Nancy knew what a fuss I made about it, and she was always very careful not to hector me with it.
No one likes a fuss!"
Come, quit all this fussing, take rich hearty food,
Very ridiculous, he thought, the fuss that Nicholas made about the Revolutionvery ridiculous the fuss that he made about everything.... Alexei had been showing Nicholas how ridiculous he was.
Why, child, you never saw such a fuss as they made over your ma in them days.
"Mamma can't stand a fuss any more.
Dey greased de saw, but dat did n' stop de fuss; hit kep' right on, tel fin'ly dey got de log all sawed up.
They took the fussing to Dr. Jimmy for him to whoop grandpa.
"What began the fuss?" "Doc Coffin upset a glass of whiskey over Swing's arm, and then cussed him for getting his arm in the way.
"Because the thing is not worth all the fuss, and if there be any merit in it, it is yours, not mine.
I delivered another tap, whereupon he squealed and roared so that he brought his mother to his rescue like a ton of bricks on stilts, a great fuss in her eyes which generally beamed with a cowful calm.
If they had consulted the groom, he would have decried all fuss, for Fannie's chief attraction was that he thought her an unspoiled, simple-minded country girl.
No good nurse can endure any fuss about her work and her merits.
And, amongst them days of gladness, ain't there one that stands alone, When yer had yer first fire-crackersjest one bunch, but all yer own? Don't yer 'member how yer envied bigger chaps their fuss and noise, 'Cause yer Ma had said that crackers wasn't good fer little boys? Do yer 'member how yer teased her, morn and eve and noon and night,
Even Mrs. Albert Murray seems to swim in a rosy and golden haze, and I am conscious of quite an affection for her, though I expect, when in a little I go down to the cabin and find her fussing and accusing us of losing her things, I shall dislike her again with some intensity.