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fussbudgetry en · NOUN

Etymology

From fussbudget + -ry.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US, uncountable) The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.
   • Alas, fussbudgetry has no place in prayer, just as emotional manipulation has no place in a loving relationship. 1997, David Yount, Breaking Through God's Silence, →ISBN:
   • All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs. 1984, Bernard H. Haggin, Music and ballet, 1973-1983, page 202:
   • Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry. 1991, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double:

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