Both Uses of
fidget
in
Arrowsmith
- During his first obstetrical case, when the student with him was merely nervous as they fidgeted by the bed in the hard desolation of the hospital room, Fatty was terrified, and he longed as he had never longed for anything in his flabby yet wistful life to comfort this gray-faced, straining, unknown woman, to take her pains on himself.†
Chpt 10
- Three fidgety minutes later, deplorably aware of masculine snickers from behind him, he escaped.†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(fidget) to make small restless movements