to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
–verb (used with object)
2.
to cause to fidget; make uneasy.
–noun
3.
Often, fidgets.the condition or an instance of being nervously restless, uneasy, or impatient.
4.
Also, fidg⋅et⋅er.a person who fidgets.
Origin: 1665–75; cf. dial. fidge to fidget, akin to the synonymous expressive words fitch, fig, fike; cf. ON fīkjast to be eager, OSw fīkja to be restless
1674, as the fidget "uneasiness," later the fidgets, from a 16c. v. fidge "move restlessly," from M.E. fiken "to fidget, hasten," from O.N. fikjask "to desire eagerly" (cf. Ger. ficken "to move about briskly;" see fuck). The v. fidget is first attested 1672 (implied in fidgetting).
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