Fidget

Definitions: Fidget

Fidget

Noun

1. A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness".

Verb

1. Move restlessly; "The child is always fidgeting in his seat".

Date "fidget" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Fidget

Synonyms: fidgetiness (n), restlessness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste).
Excitability	Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.
Haste	Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fidget

English words defined with "fidget": Fidge, Fidgeted, Fodgeting. (references)

Etymologies containing "fidget": Fidge. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Fidget, you delightful little maniac! (The Great Mouse Detective; writing credit: Ron Clements; Paul Galdone)
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Domain	Title
Books	Don't Fidget a Feather! (reference) Fidget (reference) Fidget Busters: 101 Quick Attention-Getters for Children's Ministry (reference) The Fidget Factor (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Fidget (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Fidget" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Fidget" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (base form)	27.78%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	22.22%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

Expressions using "fidget": be a fidget ♦ fidget with. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fidget"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, dust, elaboration, flurry, fluster, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), thep (bead, caustic, jag, sharp, viperous), s'më zë vendi, shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), nervozizëm (edginess, irritability, nervosity, nervousness, restlessness). (various references)

Arabic		‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏تململ بعصبية, ‏تململ, ‏تملل, ‏المتملل. (various references)

Bulgarian		съкълдисвам се, суетене (ado, coil, fiddle-faddle, fuss, stir), шавам (budge, shuffle, stir, wiggle), въртя се (circle, flutter, hover, pivot, reel, shuffle, swirl, wheel, whirl), въртя в ръцете си (finger), неспокойно състояние, нервно състояние (jumps, twit), нервничене (fuss), нервни движения, не ме свърта на едно място, притеснявам (discomfort, incommode, inconvenience, pinch, push, put smb. out, rush, screw up, squeeze), играя си (dally, fool with, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, play about, play around). (various references)

Czech		vrtìt se (wag, wriggle), neposedìt. (various references)

French		faire attention aux détails, inquiétude, impatience, donner des signes d'impatience. (various references)

German		herumzappeln (diddle, flop around, move about, move around). (various references)

Greek		κινούμαι νευρικά (flounce), νευριάζω (make nervous, nerve). (various references)

Hebrew		לקרטע (caper, leap), ל� וע בעצב� ות, � ו�"� יק (nagger). (various references)

Hungarian		nyugtalan ember (gad-fly). (various references)

Indonesian		menggelisahkan (alarm, alarming). (various references)

Italian		trovarsi a disagio, irrequietezza (restlessness), infastidire (annoy, bother, displease, get annoyed, irk, nag, worry), essere irrequieto, dimenarsi (wag, waggle, wiggle, wriggle), dimenare (toss about, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle), agitarsi (agitate, bestir oneself, bustle, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もじもじ (bashfully, be restless, hesitantly). (various references)

Manx		nhedderagh, foostyrey (fuss, fusspot, rouse), foostyr (stir). (various references)

Pig Latin		idgetfay

Portuguese		fidelidade (abidance, accuracy, adherence, adhesion, allegiance, consistency, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, near-sighted, trustiness), inquietar (colorwash, colourwash, discomfort, disquiet, disturb, pother, preoccupy, trouble), inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, fret, hurry, inquietude, jactitation, misgiving, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, unrest, worry), incomodar (ail, annoy, bother, discomfort, discommodity, disquiet, disturb, fret, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, leech, molest, pester, roil, trouble), impacientar, excitação (commotion, excitation, excitement, fire, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, freak out, fuss, gale, inflammatory, passion, rampage, rave, raving, state, stew, stimulus, thrill, transport, uproar, warmth), enervar (enervate, fluster, rile, unnerve), agitação (agitating, agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excite, excitement, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, gurgitation, heartbeat, hoodoo, hurly burly, inquietude, perturbation, Popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, sloshing, state, stirring, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian		foi (bustle, fuss, hesitate), fi nervos, zvãpãiat (flighty, giddy, scatterbrained), zbucium (agitation, anxiety, coil, struggle, struggling, trouble, uneasiness, worriment), trepida (fret, jar, shake, vibrate), trepãda (trot), se frãmânta (ferment, flutter), se foi (bustle about), se fâţâi (fuss about, fuss round), persoanã agitatã, nu avea astâmpãr, neastâmpãr (agitation, bustle, disquietude), enerva (aggravate, annoy, chafe, gall, get on one's nerves, grieve, irritate, nettle, rasp, vex, worry), deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, spoil, trouble, tumble), agita (agitate, arouse, brandish, bustle, churn, excite, flirt, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle). (various references)

Russian		нервные движения, непоседа (gadabout), ерзать (shuffle), беспокойство (ado, Angst, anxiety, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, unrest, worry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrckati (wiggle), uzvrpoljiti se, uznemirenost (disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dither, inquietude, toss, uneasiness). (various references)

Spanish		agitarse (Bob, churn, convulse, flap, fuss, heave, ruffle, shake, surge, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up, tumble, twitter, wag, wave). (various references)

Swedish		oroligt flytta sig. (various references)

Thai		กระวนกระวาย (gnaw, jitter, nervous), คนกระวนกระวาย. (various references)

Turkish		yerinde duramama (euphoria, euphory, fidgetiness, restiveness, restlessness, spring fever), rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, indisposition, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), rahat oturamayan kimse, kıpır kıpır etmek, kıpır kıpır eden kimse, huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, hump, inquietude, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), huzursuzlanmak, huzursuz etmek (annoy, disquieten, disturb, give smb. the hump, give the hump, hump, perturb, prey on). (various references)

Turkmen		sintenjiremek, oяkanjyramak. (various references)

Ukranian		хвилюватися (bother, care, create, effervesce, flutter, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave, welter), неспокій (anxiety, bother, botheration, disquiet, inquietude, trouble, unquote, unrest, worry), непосида, метушитися (bustle, clutter, fluster, fuss, fuss about, scurry, trot about). (various references)

Welsh		mwstro (hurry), gwingo (kick, struggle, wriggle, writhe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inquietari, inquietas, inquietasti. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fidget": fidgeted, fidgeter, fidgeters, fidgetiness, fidgetinesses, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fidget" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fadgey, faget, fednet, feedeth, fidgent, fidgete, fidgit, Fiegel, figet, figit, fimgt, findeth, flidget, friget, idget, Lidget. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fidget" (pronounced fi"jut)
4	-i" j u t	digit, midget, widget.
3	-j u t	budget, collegiate, gadget, intercollegiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gifted.
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-i-t"
	-1 letter: fetid, fidge.
	-2 letters: defi, deft, diet, dite, edit, gied, gift, tide, tied.
	-3 letters: die, dig, dit, eft, fed, fet, fid, fie, fig, fit, ged, get, gid, gie, git, ted, teg, tie.
	-4 letters: de, ed, ef, et, id, if, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-i-t"
	+1 letter: fidgets, fidgety, grifted.
	+2 letters: driftage, fatigued, fidgeted, fidgeter, flighted, frighted, giftedly, ungifted.
	+3 letters: defatting, defeating, defecting, deflating, driftages, eightfold, fidgeters, fidgeting, fledgiest, freighted, fumigated, gratified, ingrafted.
	+4 letters: affrighted, defaulting, defecating, deflecting, defrosting, delightful, farsighted, federating, footbridge, foredating, frightened, fustigated, gentrified, giftedness, isografted, lightfaced, misgrafted, outfigured, redrafting.
	+5 letters: centrifuged, deadlifting, defalcating, defoliating, deforesting, detoxifying, fecundating, fidgetiness, footbridges, foresighted, frigidities, giftwrapped, identifying, pettifogged, redefeating, redefecting, tightfisted.
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