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fidging

fidging is the present participle and gerund of fidge.

Meaning of fidge

Verb

fidge (third-person singular simple present fidges, present participle fidging, simple past and past participle fidged)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To fidget; jostle or shake.
    • "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges," he continued in the pleading tone. "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a fool, I tell you. If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors..."1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

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Questions about fidging

What is fidging the present participle and gerund of?
Fidging is the present participle and gerund of fidge.

Words near fidging in the dictionary

  1. fidgettiness
  2. fidgetting
  3. fidgettings
  4. fidgetty
  5. fidgety
  6. fidging
  7. fidibus
  8. fidibuses
  9. fidicinal
  10. fidlam ben
  11. fidlam bens

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