fidget Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
    fidgetiness; restlessness.
    • he's got the fidgets
    • waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness
  2. verb move restlessly
    • The child is always fidgeting in his seat

WordNet

Fidg"et intransitive verb
Etymology
From Fidge; cf. OE. fiken to fidget, to flatter, Icel. fika to hasten, Sw. fika to hunt after, AS. befician to deceive. Cf. Fickle.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fidgeted; present participle & verbal noun Fodgeting
Definitions
  1. To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.
Fidg"et noun
Definitions
  1. Uneasiness; restlessness. Cowper.
  2. pl. A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. Dunglison.

Webster 1913