ga giodam (a person who fidgets) · pl wiercipięta (a person who fidgets) · ab агәаҭе́и (a person who fidgets) · af vroetelaar (a person who fidgets) · de Zappelphilipp (a person who fidgets) · fi sätkyttelijä (a person who fidgets) · ga útamálaí (a person who fidgets) · ca ballaruga (a person who fidgets) · nl zenuwlijder (a person who fidgets) · ca belluguet (a person who fidgets) · ga goraí (a person who fidgets) · ru непосе́да (a person who fidgets) · el νευρόσπαστο (a person who fidgets) · fr gigoteur (a person who fidgets) · ab ацыхцы́х (a person who fidgets) · ru егоза́ (a person who fidgets)
From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
Meanings
(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I." 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate. 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, spoken by Johnny (David Thewlis):
(transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
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. 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 16:
“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. 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
es no quedarse quieto (to move around nervously) · ko 안절부절못하다 (to move around nervously) · de zappeln (to move around nervously) · ga bheith giongach (to move around nervously) · sh врпо̀љити се (to move around nervously) · ga bheith míshocair (to move around nervously) · fi nykiä (to move around nervously) · hu mocorog (to move around nervously) · ab аҳәацыҳәацра (to move around nervously) · bg въртя се (to move around nervously) · hu izeg-mozog (to move around nervously) · ga bheith corrthónach (to move around nervously) · af vroetel (to move around nervously) · fr gigoter (to move around nervously) · tl kuyakoy (to move around nervously) · ca bellugar-se (to move around nervously) · nl de kriebels hebben (to move around nervously) · hu fészkelődik (to move around nervously) · ja せかせかする (to move around nervously) · hu babrál (to move around nervously) · fi sätkytellä (to move around nervously) · et nihelema (to move around nervously) · mi oreore (to move around nervously) · kix tǖlālā (to move around nervously) · es moverse nerviosamente (to move around nervously) · ro a se foi (to move around nervously) · nl friemelen (to move around nervously) · fi sätkiä (to move around nervously) · es moverse compulsivamente (to move around nervously) · de herumzappeln (to move around nervously) · ab аҳәаҵәы́ҳәаҵәара (to move around nervously) · bg шавам (to move around nervously) · pt estar inquieto (to move around nervously) · fi nytkiä (to move around nervously) · cmn 坐立不安 (to move around nervously) · pl wiercić się (to move around nervously) · es no parar de moverse (to move around nervously) · ru ёрзать (to move around nervously) · mi irirangi (to move around nervously) · es revolverse (to move around nervously) · mi mānānana (to move around nervously) · eo svingiĝi (to move around nervously) · sh vrpòljiti se (to move around nervously) · ar تَمَلْمَلَ (to move around nervously) · no sprelle (to move around nervously) · fr remuer (to move around nervously) · ru верте́ться (to move around nervously)