fusspot
noun, verb
fusspot is a noun meaning “A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-S-P-O-T, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fusspot is fusspots.
What does fusspot mean?
noun
- 1
informalA person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!
verb
- 1
informalTo make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fusspot
- fusspots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fusspotting participle, present
- fusspotted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fusspot?
Fusspot appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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 fusspot come from?
From fuss + pot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).