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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
antsy

1838, American English, from plural of ant + -y (2); probably reflecting the same image as the slang expression have ants in (one's) pants "be restless and fidgety" from a century later. Related: Antsiness.

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antsy

a. restless, apprehensive and fidgety

Usage examples of "antsy".

At her side, Antsy muttered under his breath a seemingly endless list of complaints.

They watched Antsy raise a hand, halt those following with a gesture, then inscribe a circle in the air with his index finger.

Mallet strode five paces behind the big Napan woman, Spindle trotting at his heels, followed by Antsy, with Trotts a dozen paces back as rearguard.

Gruntle saw other Bridgeburners behind them: Blend, Mallet, Antsy, Spindle, Bluepearl.

Paran, Spindle, Blend, Antsy, Mallet and Bluepearl sat at the one nearest the blazing hearth, barely managing a word among them.

Zel are getting antsy about us, working themselves up to an attack, I think.

Jamie and Sophie antsy and bickering at each other, the trip was incredibly frustrating.

As far as starting another session with Call of Duty, she was too antsy to sit still.

Cringing at her own thoughts, she turned her attention back to the antsy teenager.

Arisen, Huizenga or some future sports tycoon gets antsy again in a few years.

The oil producing nations were still antsy about the future as more depolymerization plants turning waste into oil came online in the United States, making the prospects for near self-sufficiency in petroleum more realistic.

And he got a little antsy talking about his billing, so there could have been something funny about that - taking a cut of her fee, kickbacks for referrals, billing for gynecology instead of psychology to up the reimbursement, whatever.

I postulated a Cape Buffalo, escaped while some South Africans were presenting it to a zoo worth its weight in Krugerrands to antsy politicians.

Putting it down on paper made me antsier, less and less capable of putting it to rest.

He positioned himself behind the stand like Doc Layman with his forensics class and forced himself to think of his other assignment so he wouldn't get antsy when it came time to lay down the law to his men, three detectives older and much more experienced than he.