complainer

noun

Definition of complainernext
1
as in baby
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things she early on got a reputation as a complainer after finding fault with her work space

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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person a chronic complainer

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  1. baby
  2. crab
  3. bear
  4. crybaby
  5. crank
  6. fussbudget
  7. fusspot
Noun
  • Two weeks after adopting a baby, Joss Stone’s family is growing even more than expected.
    Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Charmaine was being threatened by her baby daddy Calvin and was looking into getting a restraining order against him.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of baby
Noun
  • Waiters come out dancing with magnums of Champagne and the crab tempura is great.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Variations include banh canh cua, which is often a thick soup with lumps of crab, and banh canh cha ca, a thinner broth with fish cakes that’s popular in south central Vietnam.
    Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of crab
Noun
  • But with the deepest part of winter upon us, not all bears are hibernating.
    Damon Arthur, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • It's been nearly three decades since anyone has seen a grizzly anywhere near North Cascades National Park, located northeast of Seattle, KUOW reports, even though the bears used to dominate the area.
    Natalie Escobar, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of bear
Noun
  • His overall premise can be summarized in one sentence: The teams quietly complaining about the tax advantages the Florida teams may have are a bunch of crybabies, trying to defend their own mediocre team-building records.
    Eric Duhatschek, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
  • Despite being a crybaby at the peak of her break-up with Warner, Woods’ strength lies in her ability to go within and trust her intuition.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
Definition of crybaby
Noun
  • Chimaev became the first man to submit Whittaker under the UFC banner in that matchup, ending the fight in the first round with a vicious face crank that left Whittaker needing post-fight dental work.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Rip removes the poles, lowers the straps with the crank, and stands there for 56 seconds while the casket descends.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of crank
Noun
  • But Schulz soon began fleshing out his cast with more eccentric, more specific, more driven characters: Schroeder, piano prodigy and Beethoven superfan; Lucy, vain fussbudget and perpetually aggrieved scold; Linus, thumb-sucking philosopher.
    Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
Definition of fussbudget
Noun
  • In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • However, this trait can appear as a stickler for perfection, precision, fusspot, formalist, nitpicker, pedantic, and fastidious.
    Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Definition of fusspot
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