Today's Word "fussbudget"
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fussbudget /FUS-buj-it/ (noun) - One who is fussy about unimportant things.
"Mike was the sort of fussbudget who could be brought to fits of conniption by the simple fact that his desk blotter had been placed to close too the edge of his desk or that his trash can had not been emptied properly."
From fuss + budget, from Middle English, from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (bag), from Latin bulga (bag). Ultimately from Indo-European root bhelgh- (to swell) that is also the source of bulge, bellows, billow, belly, and bolster.
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