Examples
“[8] Sir H. Holland, in speaking (` Medical Notes and Reflexions, '1839, p. 328) of that curious state of body called the fidgets, remarks that it seems due to "an accumulation of some cause of irritation which requires muscular action for its relief.”
“That extremely well known and popular disease called the fidgets, now began, indeed, to torment Sir Francis Varney.”
“The causes of "fidgets" are a heated state of the blood; an irritable condition of the nervous system, prevailing at that particular time; and want of occupution.”
“If during the day she have the "fidgets," a ride in an open carriage; or a stroll in the garden, or in the fields; or a little housewifery, will do her good, and there is nothing like fresh air, exercise, and occupation to drive away "the fidgets.”
“-- If a lady, during the night, have the "fidgets," she should get out of bed; take a short walk up and down the room, being well protected by a dressing-gown; empty her bladders turn, her pillow, so as to have the cold side next the head; and then lie down again; and the chances are that she will now fall asleep.”
“The causes of "fidgets" are a heated state of the blood; an irritable condition of the nervous system, prevailing at that particular time; and want of occupation.”
“-- A pregnant lady sometimes suffers severely from "fidgets"; it generally affects her feet and legs, especially at night, so as to entirely destroy her sleep; she cannot lie still; she every few minutes moves, tosses and tumbles about -- first on one side, then on the other.”
“The treatment of "fidgets" consists of: sleeping in a well-ventilated apartment, with either window or door open; a thorough ablution of the whole body every morning, and a good washing with tepid water of the face, neck, chest, arms and hands every night; shunning hot and close rooms; taking plenty of out-door exercise; living on a bland, nourishing, but not rich diet; avoiding meat at night, and substituting in lieu thereof, either”
“-- If a lady, during the night, have the "fidgets," she should get out of bed; take a short walk up and down the room, being well protected by a dressing-gown; empty her bladder; turn her pillow, so as to have {276} the cold side next the head; and then lie down again; and the chances are that she will now fall asleep.”
“She set about getting ready with a vim and attention to detail that proved that her "fidgets" had not affected her common-sense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fidgets’.
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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creepie crawlies
that gives me the ....
collywobbles, creeps, wiggins, willies, heebie-jeebies, heebidie jeebidies, screaming meemies, shakes, goose bumps, butterflies, jimjams, horripilation and 19 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus This word DESCRIBES ME. Jun 23, 2008
bilby This is a thrilling scientific breakthrough! Jun 23, 2008
mollusque Bilby, you were right. They served some Belgian chocolate (in seashell shapes!) at the coffee break yesterday afternoon, and the conference ended only two hours later. I'll have to see if it cures other kinds of conferences. Jun 23, 2008
reesetee Ha! Excellent use of your time! Jun 20, 2008
bilby Belgian chocolate is a good cure for database conferences. Jun 20, 2008
mollusque Database conference--we're all online surfing the web and reading email while the speakers drone on. Jun 20, 2008
bilby Belgian chocolate is a good cure for the fidgets. Jun 20, 2008
reesetee Mollusque, you're in Belgium and you're still posting here? You have it bad. ;-) Jun 19, 2008
mollusque Yarb, I agree that having each word tied to its forms would be useful, but homographs would cause problems. I don't think it could be done consistently without reprogramming the Wordie interface and restructuring the underlying database.
However, you can link stridulating to stridulate and vice versa.
(That was rather difficult to enter on a Belgian keyboard. I'm in Oostende for conference.) Jun 19, 2008
yarb rt: me too. I'd still want to be able to list a particular form of a word. My thinking is that, e.g., the lovely blent would click straight through to blend, or (maybe a better idea) have an embedded link to blend at the top of its page. I do think simple plurals should just be combined, though. And it would be nice to be able to bracket stridulating and have it click through to stridulate.
mollusque: but to me these are just different meanings, to be treated the same way as multiple meanings without distinct spellings. I'd either list the fidgets, or just talk about the fidgets on fidget. Jun 19, 2008
reesetee I think that's how trivet meant it in the "creepie crawlies" list. :-) Jun 19, 2008
mollusque Fidgets is not just the plural of fidget. How about "I've got the fidgets"? Jun 19, 2008
reesetee Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I like one form of a word more than another. Jun 19, 2008
yarb Yes - it's time plurals were aggregated with singulars, and verb conjugations combined. Jun 19, 2008
bilby 24 list fidget. Jun 19, 2008
asativum A damn shame only one Wordie lists fidgets. It's a fine, fine word and deserves better. Jun 19, 2008