fidget
/ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.59 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "“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."
Etymology
From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/
- British English: /ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/