Both Uses of
fidget
in
The Silver Chair
- And the giantess was fidgety.†
Chpt 9 *fidgety = restless and finding it hard to sit still
- And then (it made her hot all over when she remembered it afterwards) she would put her head on one side in an idiotic fashion which grown-ups, giant and otherwise, thought very fetching, and shake her curls, and fidget, and say, "Oh, I do wish it was tomorrow night, don't you?†
Chpt 9
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.