fidgetting

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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Noun

fidgeting (plural fidgetings)

1. A fidgety motion.