If you'd only have what I call a quiet set-down and a chat, without being always on the fidget, always looking either at the glass or at the clock, one might not have that feeling.

To jigget = to jig, hop or skip; to jump about, and to fidget, cf.

Fidge, fidget.

Ethelyn began to fidget.

William Lovegrove (1778-1816), famous in old comedy parts and as Peter Fidget in "The Boarding House.

His restlessness induced him to make Jarvis his companion; for although he abhorred the captain's style of pursuing the sport, being in his opinion both out of rule and without taste, yet he was a constitutional fidget, and suited his own moving propensities at the moment.

Don't you fidget about me so, good Marty."

A weaker man, albeit total stranger to fear, ready to lead his division or his corps into the very mouth of hell, if commanded, being set himself to direct an army, will be either rash or else too timid, or fidget from one extreme to the other, losing all.

V. be impatient &c adj.; not be able to bear &c 826; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew &c n.; be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.

"If you come, you will fidget, I expect.

I won't fidget.

If you stand and fidget there, I'll knock you down!"

It made him fidget so, he could not attend to what she was saying.

We were clear of the channel by the time he had finished the adventure he was relating, and Trego was beginning to fidget.

Anyhow, as they began to talk more and more, Mother began to fidget, and pretty soon I saw she was gathering up our things; and the minute the curtain went down after the first act, she says: "Come, dear, we're going home.

Mr. Dudley began to fidget, for he saw no chance of finishing his exposition.

Madam Bridget, Why, what can the Viscountess mean?' Cried the square hoods, in woeful fidget; 'The times are alter'd quite and clean! 35 'Decorum's turn'd to mere civility!

He is in a continual state of fidget about his games; he has set his heart on getting panthers to exhibit and hunt, and urges Cicero in letter after letter to procure them for him in Cilicia.

To the half of a shrivelled pumpkin hanging at the door of my tent on my first essay in settling, one of our sooty satyrs could do nothing for some minutes but fidget and skip; and with his eyes sparkling, and countenance beaming with ecstacy, exclaim, "Dam my eye, pambucan; dam my eye, pambucan!" such being the nearest point they can attain to the right pronunciation of their favourite fruit.

She knew who was her neighbor, I plainly saw; but instead of turning toward me, she began to fan herself in a nervous way and to fidget with the buttons of her gloves.

Mercury was in a state of rare fidget from the discovery that he had lost one of his precious winged shoes, and had in consequence dawdled away a whole week in company with Venus, not having dreamed that it was that crafty goddess herself, who, wishing for a pair of them, had sent one of Mercury's shoes down to Ashburton for a pattern.

Mr. Somers began to fidget gently, which father perceiving, rose from the table.

S began to fidget about, getting up from where I had placed her, and terrifying me with her unsteady motions and the rocking of the canoe.

The fidget of silk and of crinoline, the rattling of keys, the creaking of stays and of shoes, will do a patient more harm than all the medicines in the world will do him good.

After a while he began to fidget.