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Associations of "Fussing" (30 Words)
altercation | Noisy quarrel. I had an altercation with the ticket collector. |
argue | Persuade someone to do or not to do (something) by giving reasons. He argued for extra resources. |
bicker | Argue about petty and trivial matters. The restless wheels whose flashing spokes bicker and burn. |
brawl | A rough or noisy fight or quarrel. He ended up brawling with a lout outside his house. |
bustle | (of a place) be full of activity. She bustled us into the kitchen. |
busy | Keep busy with. He had been too busy to enjoy himself. |
cavil | Raise trivial objections. They cavilled at the cost. |
commotion | Civil insurrection. They set off firecrackers to make a lot of commotion. |
confuse | Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed. The points made by the authors confuse rather than clarify the issue. |
dither | Make a fuss; be agitated. He was dithering about the election date. |
dogfight | Arrange for an illegal dogfight. Sergeant Smith and a colleague were in a dogfight with an enemy aircraft. |
fight | Be engaged in a fight carry on a fight. The fight was on television last night. |
flap | Move with a flapping motion. The bird flapped its wings. |
flurry | A sudden short period of activity or excitement. There was a brief flurry of activity in the hall. |
fluster | Be flustered behave in a confused manner. The main thing is not to get all in a fluster. |
flutter | An act of fluttering. There was a flutter of wings at the window. |
hassle | Deliberate harassment. An election year hassle with farmers. |
nitpick | Engage in fussy or pedantic fault-finding. The state is nitpicking about minor administrative matters. |
picky | Exacting especially about details. They are becoming increasingly picky about where they stay. |
priggish | Self-righteously moralistic and superior. A priggish little pedant. |
quarrel | A reason for disagreement with a person, group, or principle. We have no quarrel with the people of the country only with the dictator. |
quibble | An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections. The only quibble about this book is the price. |
scuffle | (of an animal or person) move (something) in a scrambling or confused manner. A drenched woman scuffled through the doorway. |
sophism | A clever but false argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive. |
sophistry | A fallacious argument. Trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry. |
spat | Come down like raindrops. Oysters spat. |
squabble | A quarrel about petty points. Family squabbles. |
tussle | Disorderly fighting. The demonstrators tussled with police. |
wrangle | To quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively. The bar keeper threw them out but they continued to wrangle on down the street. |