All 6 Uses
fidget
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Edited)
- Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.
Chpt 1 *fidgety = restless (finding it hard to sit still)
- I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time.
Chpt 15fidgety = restless
- I fidgeted up and down the raft...
Chpt 16fidgeted = made small restless movements
- Jim was fidgeting up and down past me.
Chpt 16fidgeting = making small restless movements
- They was setting around, some of them talking a little, in a low voice, and all of them fidgety and uneasy, but trying to look like they warn't; but I knowed they was, because they was always taking off their hats, and putting them on, and scratching their heads, and changing their seats, and fumbling with their buttons.
Chpt 40fidgety = restless (finding it hard to sit still)
- ...these men was in such a fidget now that some was wanting to start right NOW and lay for them desperadoes,
Chpt 40fidget = restless state
Definitions:
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(1)
(fidget) to make small restless movements
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and usually in older literature), fidgets can reference a condition of restlessness irrespective of movements.