fidget
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of fidget
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
“"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."”
“Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
“"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."”
“Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.”
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(transitive)To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
““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.”
noun
- (countable)A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
- (countable, informal)A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
- (countable)An object, such as a tool or toy, intended to be fidgeted with.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Short for fidget house.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
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