Crossword clues for antsy
antsy
- Very nervous
- Pacing, perhaps
- Ill at ease
- Far from relaxed
- Likely to fidget
- Itching for action
- Inclined to fidget
- Tending to fidget
- Pacing, maybe
- Not just ready
- Hardly settled
- Visibly impatient
- Not at all calm
- Chomping at the bit
- Squirming, say
- Squirming, maybe
- Not at all settled
- Nervously impatient
- Full of fidgets
- Visibly uneasy
- Uncomfortable and squirming
- Too eager
- Squirming, perhaps
- Squirming in one's chair
- Short on forbearance
- Ready to move onto the next thing
- Ready to go, already
- Prone to impatience
- On pins/needles
- Not relaxed at all
- Nervously tapping one's foot
- Nervous about what's ahead
- Like many a Type A
- Itching to leave, say
- How kids often are on long drives
- Eager to get moving
- Constantly fidgeting, say
- Adjusting one's position constantly
- "Nasty" anagram
- Eager to leave the picnic?
- Overeager
- Nervously anxious
- Impatient and fidgety
- Not settled
- On pins and needles
- Not sitting well?
- Anxious
- Jittery
- Unable to sit still
- Opposite of relaxed
- Fidgety, slang
- More than ready to go
- Apprehensive
- Restless
- Having the jitters
- Unable to relax
- Constantly shifting
- Prone to fidgeting
- Itching to go
- Rarin' to go
- Unable to hold still
- Fidgeting in one's seat, say
- Overly anxious
- On edge
- Nervous and fidgety
- On tenterhooks
- Itchy and anxious
- Uneasy
- Describing this puzzle
- All hopped up
- Nervous participant sympathetically covered
- Restless colonists close to colony
- Raring to go
- Keyed up
- Champing at the bit
- All keyed up
- All atwitter
- Full of nervous energy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
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.