All 4 Uses of
fidget
in
Emma
- But there was no doing any thing, with Mr. Elton fidgeting behind her and watching every touch.†
Chpt 1.5-6 *
- Mr. Woodhouse's peculiarities and fidgetiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill-bestowed.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- "My dear, dear anxious friend,"—said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, "always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right."†
Chpt 2.5-6
- She says I fidget her to death; and Miss Woodhouse looks as if she could almost say the same.†
Chpt 2.9-10
Definition:
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(fidget) to make small restless movements