fussily

1. 1.

   in a fussy manner

   “he spoke to her fussily”

Questions about fussily

What does fussily mean?

fussily means "in a fussy manner".

How many syllables are in fussily?

fussily has 3 syllables and divides as fus-si-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is fussily a common word?

fussily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.