Carping vs Fussy - What's the difference?
carping | fussy |
Pertaining to excessive complaining.
Excessive complaining.
Anxious or particular about petty details.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy .
Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
As adjectives the difference between carping and fussy
is that carping is pertaining to excessive complaining while fussy is anxious or particular about petty details.As a verb carping
is .As a noun carping
is excessive complaining.carping
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 1847' ''Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or '''carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry -- that parent of crime -- an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.'' — Charlotte Bronte,
Preface
to 2nd London edition of ''Jane Eyre .
- 2005 Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story "Le Mari sentimental", in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life. Title:Through The Reading Glass ISBN 0791464210 Publisher:SUNY Press. Author Suellen Diaconoff. Publication Date: Apr 7, 2005 Page:110
Noun
(en noun)- 1911' ''"Oh, stop your '''carping , Dawn!" I told myself. "You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.'' — Edna Ferber, ''Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed ,
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