fidgets

English

Noun

fidgets

  1. plural of fidget
  2. A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
    • 1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263:
      But the evils of diseased nerves do not stop here. […] They not only inflict the creevles and the fidgets upon the body, but still more upon the mind.
    • 1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC:
      ‘Sit down, do, — I can’t abide to see folks standing; it gives me the fidgets.’
    • 1950, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe […], London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC:
      His voice was deep and rich and somehow took the fidgets out of them. They now felt glad and quiet and it didn't seem awkward to them to stand and say nothing.

Verb

fidgets

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fidget
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