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
  • The study also reveals that Amazon’s prices for everyday essentials – such as beauty, baby, and household products – are 1% to 6% lower than other retailers.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • About 370,000 babies were born at 37 weeks’ gestation or earlier last year, according to the report.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of baby
Noun
  • The landscape also included large primates, rodents, snakes, crabs — and even carnivorous marsupials.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Villa Avellana Who Stays There: Tech entrepreneurs, bank CEOs, music producers, and entertainers The Property: A modern, teak-and-glass villa on a secluded cove with red land crabs, white egrets, and turtle nests.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of crab
Noun
  • In this case, however, the bear found a natural food source — a dead critter in the woods — and made the most of it.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Zoom in: Fear is an adaptive mechanism that humans developed to help us, long ago, avoid things like being eaten by a bear, Bradford told Axios.
    Kale Williams, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bear
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  • 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
  • So does Bennett Morgan, whose King Ethelred morphs from bedridden crybaby to power-hungry murderer.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
Definition of crybaby
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  • Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Robert Whittaker via submission in the first round (face crank) Magomed Ankalaev def.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Oct. 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
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  • 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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