Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something. · A complaint or noise; a scene. · An exhibition of affection or admiration.
To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. · To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust · To disturb (a person) · To cry or be ill-humoured.
Of unknown origin. Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”), from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”)). Compare also fouse (“to hasten, rush, tumble, disarrange”).
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