fuss over sb/sth
— phrasal verb with fuss uk/fʌs/us/fʌs/verb
to give a person or animal too much attention because you want to show that you like him, her, or it:
She's always fussing over that son of hers as if he were a little boy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating someone well
- allowance
- be spoilt for choice idiom
- coddle
- cosset
- do as you would be done by idiom
- do sb proud idiom
- indulgence
- kid
- make much/a lot of sb idiom
- mollycoddle
- mother
- pander to sb/sth
- respect
- see sb right idiom
- smother
- spoil
- spoil sb rotten idiom
- succour
- treat
- treat sb like royalty idiom
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