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fidget
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  • The study indicates that thin people are more likely to fidget than other people.
    fidget = make small restless movements
  • All they wanted to do was fidget and pop knuckles.  (source)
  • "Don't fidget," said Ron.  (source)
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  • The sheep fidgeted nearby, uneasy with their new owner and excited by so much change.  (source)
    fidgeted = made small restless movements
  • His name was Brian, but X-Ray called him Twitch because he was always fidgeting.  (source)
    fidgeting = making small restless movements
  • Instead she begins to fidget.  (source)
    fidget = make small restless movements
  • The chickens were fidgety, the cows were skittish, and the pigs were sullen and glum.  (source)
    fidgety = restless (moving around without need)
  • His voice was deep and rich and somehow took the fidgets out of them.  (source)
    fidgets = makes small restless movements
  • The latter third of the speech was marred by the resumption of fights and other recreations among certain of the bad boys, and by fidgetings and whisperings that extended far and wide, washing even to the bases of isolated and incorruptible rocks like Sid and Mary.†  (source)
  • Ah, your caprices, Lise, your fidgetiness, your illness, that awful night of fever, that awful everlasting Herzenstube, everlasting, everlasting, that's the worst of it!†  (source)
    fidgetiness = the condition of making small restless movements
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Mae seemed embarrassed, and Miles and Jesse fidgeted, glancing at their mother uneasily.  (source)
    fidgeted = made small restless movements
  • You're fidgeting.  (source)
    fidgeting = making small restless movements
  • I fidget in my chair, watching the secretary type papers.  (source)
    fidget = make small restless movements
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