Usually means: Excessive concern or unnecessary excitement.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fuss: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fuss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fuss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fuss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fuss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fuss, fuss: Wordnik
  7. fuss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fuss: Wiktionary
  9. fuss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fuss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fuss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fuss, fuss: Dictionary.com
  13. fuss (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fuss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fuss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fuss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fuss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fuss: Rhymezone
  19. fuss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fuss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fuss: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fuss: Free Dictionary
  23. fuss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fuss: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fuss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. fuss: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fuss: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FUSS: Acronym Finder
  2. fuss: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fuss, fuss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fuss, The Fuss: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fussed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
noun:  A complaint or noise; a scene.
noun:  An exhibition of affection or admiration.
verb:  (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
verb:  (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
verb:  (transitive) To disturb (a person)
verb:  (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
verb:  (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
verb:  (transitive) To pet.

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