fidgeting, ppl. a.
(ˈfɪdʒɪtɪŋ)
[f. fidget v. + -ing2.]
In senses of the vb.
| 1672 Wycherly Love in a Wood ii. i, He is a fidgetting, censorious, gossiping, quibbling wretch. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. li. 319 My fidgetting Lord thrust in..his sharp face. 1785 F. Burney Diary 25 Nov., This was rather fidgetting intelligence. 1839–40 W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 5 He had warred for quiet through the fidgeting reign of William. 1865 Pall Mall G. 11 Apr. 1 Some fidgeting little matter of exchange. |
Hence ˈfidgetingly adv., in a fidgeting manner.
| 1882 ‘Basil’ Love the Debt II. xxviii. 270 A small parcel which Mabel had seen her take up..furtively and fidgetingly half a dozen times. 1892 Temple Bar Mag. Dec. 570 Pamela is..fidgettingly handling the little objects. |