All 3 Uses of
fidget
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- But she suddenly stopped fidgeting.†
Chpt 1 *fidgeting = making small restless movements
- On a slow afternoon when she fidgeted over sewing and wished that the telephone would ring, Bea announced Miss Vida Sherwin.†
Chpt 5fidgeted = made small restless movements
- When she pressed him he fidgeted, "I don't know; seems to me those kind of houses you speak of have been overdone."†
Chpt 24
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.