Definitions
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- adverb With
fidgeting motions; withimpatient inability to keep still.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I'm sorry," he said to Standish, as he shut the door behind him and patted the fidgetingly excited Bobby Burns on the head.
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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He was tired of the woman now she was troublesome, and fidgetingly persevering, as women are apt to be, and he was vexed to feel how little money was left in his right-hand pocket.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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I'm fidgin 'fain to see thee; [fidgetingly eager, ie "fucking glad"]
Maggie Lauder 1999
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(fastened by a cord running through his collar from one side of the tonneau to the other) lay fidgetingly on the rear seat.
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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