fidging, ppl. a. Sc.
(ˈfɪdʒɪŋ)
[f. fidge v. + -ing2.]
That ‘fidges’, restless, fidgety.
| 1637 Abp. Williams Holy Table 60 As..manly as he is fidging. 1721 Kelly Sc. Prov. 8 A fidging Mare should be well girded. 1821 Blackw. Mag. VIII. 619 The fidging Prentices, their elbows claw. 1862 A. Hislop in Scot. Prov. 5. |
b. In phr. fidging fain, eager to restlessness or discomfort. Const. to with inf.
| ? a 1700 Maggie Lauder in Songs of Scot. (1851) II. 111 Maggie..I'm fidgin' fain to see thee. 1785 Burns Ep. to J. Lapraik v. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. I. 322 The people in the pit, a fidgin fain to see her. 1892 in Northumb. Gloss. |