fidgetsome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by fidgetting.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivefidgetsome (comparative more fidgetsome, superlative most fidgetsome)

comparative more fidgetsome · superlative most fidgetsome

  1. Characterised or marked by fidgetting.

    He could only hope that taffy blonde with the vanilla ice-cream hide and chocolate eyes was as bored and fidgetsome back in that private compartment.

    2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270: Longarm and the Lady Bandit
    1 more example

    A mob of humans and cactacae; khepri, their scarab heads fidgetsome; vodyanoi in the canals that linked to the city, crewing openbottomed barges; rarer races.

    2004, China Miéville, Iron Council

Origin

  1. Englishfidget
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishfidgetsome

From fidget + -some.

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APA

fidgetsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidgetsome

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Chicago

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