fidgets

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noun

A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of fidget
  2. A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.

    ‘Sit down, do, — I can’t abide to see folks standing; it gives me the fidgets.’

    1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    2 more examples

    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.

    1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263

    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.

    1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of fidget
Cite this entry
APA

fidgets. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidgets

MLA

“fidgets.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidgets. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fidgets,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidgets.

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