fussbudgetry

English

Alternative forms

• fuss-budgetry

Etymology

fussbudget +‎ -ry

Noun

fussbudgetry (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US) The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.
   • 1984, Bernard H. Haggin, Music and ballet, 1973-1983, page 202:

     All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.

   • 1991, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double:

     Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry.

   • 1997, David Yount, Breaking Through God's Silence, →ISBN:

     Alas, fussbudgetry has no place in prayer, just as emotional manipulation has no place in a loving relationship.