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FUSSING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FUSSING?

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Associations of "Fussing" (30 Words)

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.*