fidget — English Dictionary

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   "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.

2. To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   “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.

   Being of a very cleanly habit, he was constantly rubbing himself in order to preserve the whiteness of his skin unsullied. The scurf which was thus removed from his person he laid on one side, till it gathered in such a heap as to fidget him. To be rid of it he constructed the earth out of it.

Noun

1. A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.

   Usage

   • Countable

2. A person who fidgets, especially habitually.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Informal

   Synonyms

   fidgeter

3. An object, such as a tool or toy, intended to be fidgeted with.

   Usage

   • Countable

Noun

1. a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion

   Synonyms

   fidgetinessrestlessness

   Broader terms

   agitation

   Examples

   he's got the fidgets

   waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness

Verb

1. move restlessly

   Broader terms

   move

   Examples

   The child is always fidgeting in his seat