| 单词 | fuss |
| 释义 | fuss I. obsolete II. 1. a. < he found a point of vantage and settled himself with all the fuss of an audience in a theater — Audrey Barker > b. < stand by this old man and make a big fuss over his ability to cook beans — L.C.Douglas > 2. a. < in a fuss and a stew all afternoon — Molly L. Bar-David > b. < no fuss was made in his day if a new writer took from an old one whatever material he found congenial — C.E.Montague > c. < as a dying phase of the fuss they are raising a controversy over certain words and phrases — B.J.Hendrick > 3. < printed in Caslon without fuss — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: see stir III. intransitive verb 1. a. < a fleet of small tugs … fussed up and down continually — Leslie Richardson > specifically < the children kissed me and patted me and fussed over me — Polly Adler > b. < fuss with his clothes — J.B.Benefield > 2. slang < have the best time in college: dramatics and basketball and fussing and dancing — Sinclair Lewis > 3. a. < I know I'm an idiot to fuss but they're two hours late — David Walker > b. (1) < tears and fussing are hard for a parent to take but some release is better for a child than attempts at Spartan bravery — Dorothy Barclay > (2) dialect < I don't like to be fussed at in public — Eudora Welty > transitive verb 1. < she fussed one; she was always in a state of emotion — Virginia Woolf > 2. slang |
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