What is "fidgets"

Usage examples of "fidgets".

As to who may have started the rumour, I know no more than you do, and can perceive no reason why you should be thrown into high fidgets over it.

And why she should be cast into high fidgets only because she's a trifle scorched I'm damned if I know.

Killa found the medic's fidgets amusing since the woman had always seemed so selfconfident.

Well, my dear, I don't scruple to own that that's put me a trifle on the fidgets, for you know what she is!

He had naturally taken her up beside him, which, said Lady Colebatch, with unruffled serenity, she was excessively relieved to know, because although she knew Patience to be an indefatigable walker it would have cast her into high fidgets to have thought of her having trudged so far in such warm weather.

March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth’s, and after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said, “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.