Fuss.

Much ado about nothing. (Anglo-Saxon, fus, eager.)

“So full of figure, so full of fuss,

She seemed to be nothing but bustle.”


Hood: Miss Kilmansegg, part iii. stanza 12.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Funk
Funny Bone
Furbelow
Furca
Furcam et Flagellum (gallows and whip)
Furies (The Three)
Furies of the Guillotine (The)
Furor
Fusberta
Fusilier’s
Fuss
Fustian
Fustian Words
Futile
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