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fuss with

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fuss (around) with someone or something
to keep bothering with someone or something; to fiddle with someone or something. Don't fuss around with it. We'll have to get a new one. Don't fuss with your children. They will get along just fine without all that attention.
See also: fuss
fuss with something
1. to be busy with something without having a particular purpose Jack had spent hours fussing with the old car.
2. to try to fix something complicated It's a mistake to fuss with your computer.
Related vocabulary: fiddle with something
See also: fuss
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I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
"Yes," says I, "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
ud make a bigger fuss with her, according to what they've got.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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