fuss
noun
an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle.
have fussed
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present perfectof fuss.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The colonel, exercising his owner's prerogative, would have fussed about The Rogue until the last minute.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
Had Billy Sunday been in the regular theatrical business he would not have fussed with a little independent theatre.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
Seem to have fussed a bit over it, too.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
They could not have fussed more if it had been a baby.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Now that she had it in her hand it seemed to her amazing that Mrs. Potten, with her big income, should have fussed over such a small matter.
From The New Warden by Mrs. David G. Ritchie
