fidget

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"You are a fidget, my dear, and Matilda is a fidget--I can't have two of you at my bedside.

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  1. intransitive verb To behave or move nervously or restlessly.
  2. intransitive verb To play or fuss; fiddle: He fidgeted with his notes while lecturing.
  3. transitive verb To cause to behave or move nervously or restlessly.
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  • Neither man on either side of him seemed to ever fidget or move, except to reach up and lift things onto the desk from their Tingles 'trays, like machines, and they were never in the lounge at break. —  The New Yorker
  • He started fidget-finger-started to touch me digitally with his fingers. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Where he then proceeds to fidget, wiggle, and pat me on the shoulder repeatedly. —  Autism Hub
  • You fidget, sweat, curse, crane your neck to look farther and farther down the street, convinced that anything larger than a Geo is actually the 38-Geary. —  Mets Geek
  • I seem to recall that during the Q&A session on my Gosford Park DVD, he is right old fidget, although again he answers questions with wit, intelligence, humour and a gallon of charm! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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frig ·  gouge ·  exactingness ·  quacking ·  ssri ·  nosebleed ·  bobbery ·  botheration ·  roquelaure ·  fluster ·  andour ·  pother

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fidget:   fidgeting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From obsolete and dialectal fidge, to move restlessly, perhaps from Middle English fiken, of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from fidge + diminutive -et, which has here a freq. force: see fidge.
  2. from fidget, v.
 

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/ˈfɪdʒɛt/
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