Fidget

Quick meaning: Fidget is a verb meaning (intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

Meaning

(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
2. (countable) A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
3. (informal, countable) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
4. (countable) An object, such as a tool or toy, intended to be fidgeted with.
5. (uncountable) Short for fidget house.

Example Sentences

Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.

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

“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.

Word Forms

• fidgets
• fidgeting
• fidgetting
• fidgeted
• fidgetted

Synonyms for fidget

Depending on context, synonyms include fidgeter, restlessness, fidgetiness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fidgetiness, restlessness, move, fuss, figgle, twiddle.

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