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a customer who's a real fussbudget about wanting her food very hot
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But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher.
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Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
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Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
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“Fussbudget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fussbudget. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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