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fidgetted

fidgetted is the simple past and past participle of fidget.

Meaning of fidget

Verb

fidget (third-person singular simple present fidgets, present participle fidgeting or (rare) fidgetting, simple past and past participle fidgeted or (rare) fidgetted)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
    • “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....

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Questions about fidgetted

What is fidgetted the simple past and past participle of?
Fidgetted is the simple past and past participle of fidget.

Words near fidgetted in the dictionary

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

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