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Fuss Gen Anglo Irish Alteration Make Force Sound Originally

正面 12679.fuss
英 [fʌs]美 [fʌs]

背面
释义:
vi. 小题大作;忙乱;焦燥;焦急;无事自扰n. 大惊小怪,大惊小怪的人;小题大作;忙乱vt. 使烦恼,使烦忧n. (Fuss)人名;(匈)富什;(法)菲斯
例句:
1. Auntie Hilda and Uncle Jack couldn't fuss over them enough.希尔达姨妈和杰克姨父对他们宠爱有加。

fuss ....乏事..........琐碎小事2. 发丝,头发丝儿大小的事也奇怪----大惊小怪。3. 音:烦死、烦事,为一些小事而烦死,而混乱。4. fussing:谐音“发神”----发神经、总是很神经质。
fuss 大惊小怪词源不详。通常认为来自拟声语,指大惊小怪的人。
fussfuss: [18] The early use of fuss by Irish-born writers such as Jonathan Swift and George Farquhar has led to the supposition that it is of Anglo-Irish origin, but no substantiation for this has ever been found on the other side of the Irish Sea. Among suggestions as to how it came into being have been that it was an alteration of force, as in the now obsolete phrase make no force of ‘not bother about’, and that it was simply onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of someone puffing and blowing and making a fuss.fuss (n.)"trifling bustle," 1701, originally colloquial, perhaps an alteration of force (n.), or "echoic of the sound of something sputtering or bubbling" [OED], or from Danish fjas "foolery, nonsense." First attested in Anglo-Irish writers, but there are no obvious connections to words in Irish. To make a fuss was earlier to keep a fuss (1726). Fuss and feathers "bustle and display" is from 1848, American English, suggestive of a game cock or a peacock, originally of U.S. Army Gen. Winfield Scott (1786-1866) in the Mexican war. Gen. Scott is said to be as particular in matters of etiquette and dress as Gen. Taylor is careless. The soldiers call one "Old Rough and Ready," and the other "Old Fuss and Feathers." ["The Mammoth," Nov. 15, 1848]. fuss (v.)1792, from fuss (n.). Related: Fussed; fussing. Extended form fussify is by 1832."

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