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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fussy \Fuss"y\, a. [Compar. {Fussier}; superl. {Fussiest}.]
     Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about
     trifles; overnice; fidgety.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. --R. G.


                                                    White.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fussy
       adj 1: perversely irritable [syn: {crabbed}, {crabby}, {cross}, {grouchy},
               {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}]
       2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a
          fussy design" [syn: {busy}]
       3: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy
          about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was
          prepared" [syn: {finical}, {finicky}, {particular}]
       [also: {fussiest}, {fussier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "fussy":
     Byzantine, accurate, agitated, arabesque, attentive, baroque,
     bustling, busy, chichi, choosy, close, conscientious, conscionable,
     correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed,
     difficult, discriminating, elaborate, elegant, exact, exacting,
     exigent, exquisite, fancy, fastidious, fidgety, fine, finical,
     finicking, finicky, finikin, flamboyant, florid, flowery,
     fluttering, fluttery, fretful, frilly, full, fuss-budgety, fussing,
     gingerbread, hard to please, heedful, high-wrought, hopping,
     humming, hustling, irritable, jumpy, labored, lively, luxuriant,
     luxurious, meticulous, minute, moresque, narrow, nice, nit-picking,
     ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored,
     overworked, overwrought, painstaking, particular, pawky,
     pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, picturesque, popping,
     precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretty-pretty,
     punctilious, punctual, queasy, querulous, refined, religious,
     restive, restless, rich, rigid, rigorous, rococo, scrupulous,
     scrutinizing, special, specific, squeamish, strict, subtle, tense,
     turbulent, uneasy, unquiet, unrestful, unsettled
  
  

















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