All 8 Uses of
fidget
in
Gone with the Wind
- She gives me the fidgets!†
Chpt 1.1 *fidgets = makes small restless movements
- Beside him Honey Wilkes, so called because she indiscriminately addressed everyone from her father to the field hands by that endearment, fidgeted and giggled as she called greetings to the arriving guests.†
Chpt 1.6fidgeted = made small restless movements
- He had refused to permit it and stated heatedly that she had no more sense than a June bug and furthermore it gave him the fidgets to be around her longer than five minutes.†
Chpt 2.8fidgets = makes small restless movements
- Uncle Henry fidgeted, coughed and did not look at her, lest he catch sight of a tear that would upset him.†
Chpt 3.19fidgeted = made small restless movements
- You give me a headache" or "Stop fidgeting, Wade, for Heaven's sake!"†
Chpt 3.25fidgeting = making small restless movements
- All of them, all the men she knew, even the drowsy-eyed Ashley and fidgety old Frank, were like that underneath—murderous, violent if the need arose.†
Chpt 4.37fidgety = restless and finding it hard to sit still
- She twisted about on the keg, becoming nervous and fidgety as Will still did not come.†
Chpt 4.39
- You make me nervous, fidgeting about.†
Chpt 5.52fidgeting = making small restless movements
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.