Fussy vs Grouchy - What's the difference?
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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).
Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
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* 1922 , Henry William Fischer, , Author's Preface,
Fussy is a related term of grouchy.
As adjectives the difference between fussy and grouchy
is that fussy is anxious or particular about petty details while grouchy is irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.fussy
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* See alsoSee also
* pedantic * pickygrouchy
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(er)- His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
- Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.
- He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy ," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.
- In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."