Слово "fuss". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

I mean they'd make a fuss. I can't stand a fuss."  

‘What will you take for the geese?’ One would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the fuss that is made over them.”

It’s a great bore to him, putting out all his plans; he’s been making the most enormous fuss…Everyone else has gone.

‘And anyway,’ continued Miss Flora, ‘all this making a fuss about things because someone wore or used them seems to me all nonsense. They’re not wearing or using them now.

‘What will you take for the geese?’ One would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the fuss that is made over them.”

"She's all right," said Judith unfeelingly, "She just likes making a fuss."

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.

And she fusses around so much, trying to do the right thing and make you feel at home, that she always manages to say and do just exactly the wrong thing.

“She’s just fussing,” he said.

Mom fussed over him, Hans showed him hydroponic farming and Stu got dirty and sweaty and sloshed around in tunnels with our boys--helped harvest our Chinee fishponds--got stung by our bees--learned to handle a p-suit and went up with me to make adjustments on solar battery--helped Anna butcher a hog and learned about tanning leather--sat with Grandpaw and was respectful to his naive notions about Terra--washed dishes with Milla, something no male in our family ever did--rolled on floor with babies and puppies--learned to grind flour and swapped recipes with Mum.

“They’ve been fussing, Scout.”

Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

“Have you all been fussing?”