All 5 Uses
fidget
in
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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- "They keep quiet, and will expect you to do the same," he said, frowning as my brothers, restless and fidgety, made a game of shoving each other.†
p. 22.5fidgety = restless and finding it hard to sit still
- Carmine is up several times in the night, irritable and fidgety, and though I try to soothe him, he cries fitfully for a long time, disturbing the children around us.†
p. 57.1
- You will not fidget or touch your face.†
p. 59.1 *fidget = make small restless movements
- You will not fidget or what, Norma?†
p. 59.3
- Despite my attempts to hold their heads still, they twitch and fidget, and as a result have little bloody nicks and gashes all over their heads.†
p. 144.8
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.