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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fidgety
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Two fidgety toddlers stood with their mothers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And fussy, fidgety babies, the researchers found, show an identifiable brain-wave pattern.
▪ He was fidgety and in a dream world when being given instruction in a group.
▪ He went to the floor, where members were joined by scores of fidgety children and grandchildren.
▪ She was dressed, and felt rather fidgety, but, at the same time, directionless.
▪ You get fidgety if you've nothing to do.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fidgety

Fidgety \Fidg"et*y\, a. Restless; uneasy.
--Lowell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fidgety

1730s, from fidget (n.) + -y (2). Related: Fidgetiness.

Wiktionary
fidgety

a. Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget.

WordNet
fidgety

adj. unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child" [syn: fretful, itchy, restless]

Usage examples of "fidgety".

After the adjournment, Doil was fidgety but silent while DETECTIVE 53 two crime-scene specialists testified.

He felt fidgety, restlesswhat his grandfather, an outport minister back in Newfoundland, would have called flicy.

He was fidgety and computerphobic, more of a nuisance than not, but it was a start.

Such other deads as Klein had seen at close range had about them an air of unearthly serenity, but not this one: Dolorosa was tense, fidgety, a knuckle-cracker, a lip gnawer.

He was gray-haired and pale and frail, fussy and fidgety of manner, prissily dressed in mauve silks.

When the door was shut and we stood there facing them-myself nervous and fidgety, Urgulanilla massive and expressionless and clenching and unclenching her great fists-the solemnity of these two evil old grandmothers gave way, and they burst into uncontrolled laughter.

The letter contained only one paragraph of any importance, and that was due to what Lopez tried to regard as fidgety cowardice on the part of his ally.

Hannah got sick and fidgety all by herself, fighting skeeters and panthers for a year with no man to help her haul her crops, and that old breed Charlie Tommie trying to take advantage.

He slid along the edges of space once more in the vicious aerodynamic bathtubs that skittered like fidgety waterbugs on a shifting lake of thin atmosphere.

Angelique, as fresh as the morning dew, was more radiant than usual, but fidgety, and carefully avoided looking me in the face.

Troy Boren was fidgety and nervous, his hair curly brown, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he swallowed repeatedly.

The same fidgety fitfulness is afflicting them both, though neither has admitted it to the other yet.

More to the point, they made him much less fidgety, upped his capacity to concentrate and gave him control over his sweat glands, pheromone output and galvanic skin response (the last three not strictly legal, but then the clinic was owned by a subsidiary of Kehar Heavy Industries).

Angrily shushing the fidgety Muniz had done absolutely no good at all.

His first real warning that something really was wrong and that Cymry just wasn't being fidgety was when Wintermoon suddenly tensed and flung up his hand, and Corwith came winging in as fast as slung shot, landing on his outstretched arm, and hissing with fear and anger.