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fidgets

fidgets noun: a state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget. Also the plural of fidget.

Noun

fidgets

  1. A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
    • 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
    • ‘Sit down, do, — I can’t abide to see folks standing; it gives me the fidgets.’1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

Also used as

fidgets is also the plural of fidget.

fidgets is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of fidget.

Questions about fidgets

What does fidgets mean?
Fidgets means a state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
What part of speech is fidgets?
Fidgets is a noun.

Words near fidgets in the dictionary

  1. fidgetinesses
  2. fidgeting
  3. fidgetingly
  4. fidgetings
  5. fidgetins
  6. fidgets
  7. fidgetsome
  8. fidgetted
  9. fidgetter
  10. fidgetters
  11. fidgettiness

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