fuss

Noun

• a rapid active commotion

• a quarrel about petty points

• an angry disturbance
  • he didn't want to make a fuss
    
  • they had labor trouble
    
  • a spot of bother
    

• an excited state of agitation
  • he was in a dither
    
  • there was a terrible flap about the theft
    

Verb

• care for like a mother
  • She fusses over her husband
    

• worry unnecessarily or excessively
  • don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bustle , hustle , flurry , ado , stir , bicker , bickering , spat , tiff , squabble , pettifoggery , trouble , bother , hassle , dither , pother , tizzy , flap , mother , overprotect , niggle , fret