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fussily

adverb

fussily is an adverb meaning “In a fussy manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-S-I-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fussily mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a fussy manner.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fussily

  • more fussily comparative
  • most fussily superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fussily?

Fussily appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fussily come from?

From fussy + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).