All 6 Uses of
fidget
in
Anna Karenina
- "Give us another bottle," Stepan Arkadyevitch directed the Tatar, who was filling up their glasses and fidgeting round them just when he was not wanted.†
Part 1 *fidgeting = making small restless movements
- I've put a muzzle on her, and the mare's fidgety.†
Part 2fidgety = restless and finding it hard to sit still
- The mare's fidgety," he added, nodding towards the horse-box, before which they were standing, and from which came the sound of restless stamping in the straw.†
Part 2
- "There, you see how fidgety she is," said the Englishman.†
Part 2
- Why do you keep fidgeting, why don't you go to sleep?" his brother's voice called to him.†
Part 3fidgeting = making small restless movements
- The passage at which he was utterly unable to say anything, and began fidgeting and cutting the table and swinging his chair, was where he had to repeat the patriarchs before the Flood.†
Part 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(fidget) to make small restless movements
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and usually in older literature), fidgets can reference a condition of restlessness irrespective of movements.