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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fidget
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A few students fidgeted nervously in their chairs.
▪ Diana fidgeted nervously with her pencil.
▪ She glared at the little boy, who had started fidgeting in his chair.
▪ Stop fidgeting, Sally, and pay attention.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Antoine sat, colours still fidgeting through his crown, that smile still lighting his face.
▪ At the postgame press conference he brought his glove, sat it on the table in front of him and commenced fidgeting.
▪ Hardin fidgeted and stood on his toes to better his view.
▪ He fidgeted through speeches by his wife, Camille, and Rep.
▪ In the sitting room, Alida Thorne sat and fidgeted, like a parlourmaid banished below-stairs.
▪ The manager was waiting for her at the desk, deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon.
▪ The small audience had begun to fidget on their rickety folded chairs.
▪ They fidget, sit on their feet and fold little fingers around stubby pencils, sweating out an exercise in mathematics.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Michael's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess.
▪ She watched him seeing it all, feeling it all, assimilating his surroundings with no fidget or fluster.
▪ So delighted with the little moral scene was she that she sat on til recess at 12: 30 without a fidget.
▪ The empty air was still vibrating slightly with the suppressed fidgets of children.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fidget

Fidget \Fidg"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fidgeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fodgeting.] [From Fidge; cf. OE. fiken to fidget, to flatter, Icel. fika to hasten, Sw. fika to hunt after, AS. befician to deceive. Cf. Fickle.] To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.
--Moore.

Fidget

Fidget \Fidg"et\, n.

  1. Uneasiness; restlessness.
    --Cowper.

  2. pl. A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria.
    --Dunglison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fidget

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.)).

fidget

1670s (implied in fidgetting); see fidget (n.). Related: Fidgeted.

Wiktionary
fidget

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.

WordNet
fidget

  1. n. a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidgetiness, restlessness]

  2. v. move restlessly; "The child is always fidgeting in his seat"

Wikipedia
Fidget

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.

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.