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fidget
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Word definitions for fidget in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fidget \Fidg"et\, n. Uneasiness; restlessness. --Cowper. pl. A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. --Dunglison.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) A person who fidgets, especially habitually. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fidget may refer to: ST Fidget , a British Admiralty tugboat Fidgeting , the inability to sit still for a period of time Fidget house , a genre of Electro house Fidget, a secondary villain in the 1986 animated children's film The Great Mouse Detective .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, as the fidget "uneasiness," later the fidgets , from a verb fidge "move restlessly" (16c., surviving longest in Scottish), perhaps from Middle English fiken "to fidget, hasten" (see fike (v.)).
Usage examples of fidget.
The maiden fidgeted, she plucked at the ends of the wimple that lay about her shoulders, she smoothed the rich cyclas of her mantle and finally she arose and bowing before the princess asked if she might go and bid farewell to her mother.
Two steps in front of him, next to Kara, Dreidel fidgeted with his tie and did the same.
As the two crews settled and stopped fidgeting, Janeway surveyed the Equinox officers with a controlled expression.
Standing next to Boba Fett, Zuckuss fidgeted and gazed with alarm around the great reception hall.
At the far left of the front pew, a handsome but angry-looking man is fidgeting too.
One of the horses is directly under her bedroom window, fidgeting and snorting.
FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests, at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linoleum, retired, and Mr Pritchard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant, fidgets in her rinsed sleep, wakes in a dream, and nudges in the ribs dead Mr Ogmore, dead Mr Pritchard, ghostly on either side.
The jungli, naked except for a leather strap, appeared in the door and fidgeted.
On the other were the eighteen motionless guns, limbered up and ready, the horses fidgeting and stamping in the raw morning air.
He fidgeted nervily around, occasionally grabbing the handhold heartily wishing the whole dirty business were done with and over.
The Saint shrugged and turned to Orace, who had been fuming and fidgeting around him.
When Sheelah helped him he fidgeted, then bolted from the water again.
Tonker had that look she got before she exploded, and even Shufti was fidgeting.
She narrowed her eyes at him, ignoring the fidgeting Tamas at his side.
He was gone for a long time, while Goladan fidgeted and Trian continued to gather information plucked across space from the alien minds.