Can it be simply "fussiness"; since the people who have the least to do commonly make the most flutter about doing it?
Perhaps it is merely conversation.

"_Cut-cut-cut-cut-cut_-DAH_cut_!.

.

.
I have finished my strictly fresh egg, have you laid yours?
Make haste, then, for the cock has found a gap in the wire-fence and wants us to wander in the strawberry-bed.

.