Associations to the word «Fidget»

Wiktionary

FIDGET, verb. (intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
FIDGET, verb. (transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
FIDGET, noun. (informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.

Dictionary definition

FIDGET, noun. A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness".
FIDGET, verb. Move restlessly; "The child is always fidgeting in his seat".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats