Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To fidget.
  • To cause to fidget.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare See fidget.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, dialectal, Scotland To fidget; jostle or shake.
  • noun obsolete, dialectal, Scotland A shake; fiddle or similar agitation.

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Examples

  • Thanks for the report! scott fidge said at 6am on Nov 25th # |

    An icon for WordPress | FactoryCity 2007

  • What I knows, certain, is this -- we gets in here about eight o'clock this morning, and makes fast here, and ever since then them two's been as it were on the fret and the fidge, allers lookin 'out, so to speak, for summun as ain't come yet.

    Scarhaven Keep 1899

  • Ye see, "continued the expert in camping out on hills," the hay an 'the heather gets doon yer neck an' mak's ye yeuk [itch] an 'fidge a' day.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • ebbery thyme mai hoomin goes tu teh fidge, ai breeves in as much as ai can adn… WEEEEEEEEEEEK WEEEEEEK WEEEEEK WEEEEEK… sumthymes eet werks, otterthymes eet nawt werk adn dey juss plai wib me insted.

    SNOBALL FITE RULE #1 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • In 1845 ” after saying good-bye and “Why will you go to Switzerland? there will be such a fidge about you when you're gone” ” Turner lost his health, and was never himself again.

    The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

  • Switzerland? there will be such a _fidge_ about you when you're gone "-- Turner lost his health, and was never himself again.

    The Life of John Ruskin 1893

  • There, don't be in such a fidge about it; you couldn't act square to both of them. "

    To The West George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "'In gathering votes you were not slack, Now stand as tightly by your tack, Ne'er show your lug an' fidge your back, An 'hum an' haw; But raise your arm, an 'tell your crack Before them a'. '

    Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "Dog on it," said James, giving a fidge with his hainches; "Dog on it, as

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • "Dog on it," said James, giving a fidge with his hainches; "Dog on it, as

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

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