Definitions for fidget

fidget fidg·et

Spelling: [fij-it]
IPA: /ˈfɪdʒ ɪt/

Fidget is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in fidget (defgit).

Definitions for fidget

noun

  1. Often, fidgets. the condition or an instance of being nervously restless, uneasy, or impatient.
  2. Also, fidgeter. a person who fidgets.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to fidget; make uneasy.

verb (used without object)

  1. to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.

Origin of fidget

1665-75; compare dial. fidge to fidget, akin to the synonymous expressive words fitch, fig, fike; compare Old Norse fīkjast to be eager, Old Swedish fīkja to be restless

Examples for fidget

Ascher did not find the thing interesting and began to fidget.

He hesitated again, until the Kwanns in front of him had begun to fidget.

There was no impatience or desire to fidget left in Jabe Smith now.

It was hard to wait, hard not to fidget under the watchful—the only word—eyes of the GG.

Henry did not encourage romance, and she was no girl to fidget for it.

Mrs. fidget (who has been fingering all the Joints for some time).

"Of course, I should fidget about you," she said, indignantly.

They fidget constantly and can rarely sleep, sometimes going a month or more on two to three hours of sleep a night.

Mr Neeld was in a fidget, a fidget of importance and expectancy.

She was looking about her on all sides, in a fidget of annoyance, searching for him, and to his dismay she saw him.

Word Value for fidget
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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