Both Uses of
fidget
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Our hands are fidgety, we smoke countless cigarettes, until Kropp says: "We might as well take them a few cigarettes too."†
p. 146.1 *fidgety = restless and finding it hard to sit still
- Lewandowski is very fidgety, every now and then he squints across at us most unhappily with his round goggle eyes.†
p. 266.6
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.