Meanings
comparative more fidgetsome · superlative most fidgetsome
- 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 Bandit1 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
- Englishfidget
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishfidgetsome
Cite this entry
fidgetsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidgetsome
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