Other forms: fidgeting, fidgets
To fidget is to move restlessly because you cannot settle. Tapping, jiggling a leg, turning a pen over and over.
It is small continuous movement rather than one big one, and it usually signals boredom, nerves or impatience. Children are told to stop fidgeting more than almost anything else. The noun can name a person, since a fidget is somebody who does it. Fidget toys and fidget spinners were designed to give restless hands something to do, and they are genuinely useful for some people.
1verbfidgetTo make small restless movements.
“He fidgeted all the way through the service.”
Old English
-ettan
Middle English
*-ten
English, today
fidget
From fidge + et, possibly from Middle English -ten, from Old English -ettan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA