v. 1 squirm, twitch, shuffle, wriggle, wiggle, fiddle, fuss; fret, chafe Stop fidgeting and tell me the truth!
n. 2 fusspot, fuss-budget, cat on hot bricks, US cat on a hot tin roof, Colloq US nervous Nellie If her conscience is clear, why is she such a fidget? 3 the fidgets restlessness, fidgetiness, dither, uneasiness, the jitters, nervousness, itchiness, Colloq heebie-jeebies, jim-jams, ants in one's pants Whenever he tells a lie he gets a bad case of the fidgets