Usually means: Excessively particular, hard to please.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word fussy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fussy: Merriam-Webster
  2. fussy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fussy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fussy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fussy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fussy, fussy: Wordnik
  7. fussy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fussy: Wiktionary
  9. fussy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fussy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fussy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fussy, fussy: Dictionary.com
  13. fussy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fussy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fussy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fussy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fussy: Rhymezone
  18. FUSSY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. fussy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fussy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fussy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. fussy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. fussy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fussy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fussy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fussy, fussy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fussier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
adjective:  Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies).
adjective:  Having much unnecessary detail or decoration.
noun:  A commune in Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France
noun:  A surname from French.
noun:  A surname from German.

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