Noun
A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
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But the evils of diseased nerves do not stop here. […] They not only inflict the creevles and the fidgets upon the body, but still more upon the mind.
‘Sit down, do, — I can’t abide to see folks standing; it gives me the fidgets.’
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His voice was deep and rich and somehow took the fidgets out of them. They now felt glad and quiet and it didn't seem awkward to them to stand and say nothing.