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Fidget

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
  2. 2
    a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who fidgets, especially habitually. informal
  4. 4
    An object intended to be fidgeted with (such as a tool or toy).
Verb
  1. 1
    To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly. intransitive

    ""Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I.""

  2. 2
    move restlessly wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to fidget; to make uneasy. transitive

    "“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.

Etymology 2

From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.

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