fusses

She fusses around hospitably, offering radishes, cucumbers, spring onions—and some delicious cheesecakes.

We know Lagerfeld is obsessed with him—and sure enough, when he storms the studio, Lagerfeld makes the biggest of fusses over him.

He fusses, fumes, finds fault, and scolds because everything is not perfect in an imperfect world.

Fike, bustles, fusses: still in dialectic use in the northern counties and Scotland.

Even in this volume he fusses too much about the De Guérins.

He worries and fusses; he “nags,” as we used to say at school; and, when mother and I are quite worn out, his triumph is assured.

Your father gets so alarmed, and fidgets and fusses, if he thinks that there is anything the matter with you.