Reverse Dictionary: FIDGET

ADJECTIVES
► AT NESTLE restless, fidgety, in a state of excitement or uneasiness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CADDLING fussy, fidgety, pottering → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FADDY fastidious, fidgety, over-particular; full of crotchets or whims → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FANTOD fidgety, restless → 1887
► FEEKY fidgety, restless → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIDGERTY fidgety → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FIDGY restless, fidgety → 1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FIKY fastidious, difficult to please, fidgety → 1823 Sc.
► FLISKY fidgety; unsettled; light-headed; whimsical; frolicsome; flighty; lively: of a horse: restive, frisky → 1807 Sc.
► FRITCHETY fretful, peevish, fidgety → 19C Eng. dial.
► ITEMING fidgeting, trifling → 1867 Eng. dial.
► ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety → 1889 Eng. dial.
► JAFFLING fidgety → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAZED fidgety, uneasy, over-anxious; fretful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MESSY fidgeting, irritating, finicking → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NADING fidgeting → 1870 Eng. dial.
► NESTLY fidgety, restless → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON NETTLES fidgety, uneasy, excited; in a restless, impatient condition; anxious, in suspense → 1892
► ON THE NESTLE restless, fidgety, in a state of excitement or uneasiness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PAMPLING fidgety → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ROOTCHY ► RUTSCHI ► RUTZY restless, fidgety → 1968 Amer. dial.
► TADIOUS ► TAGEOUS ► TEDDIOUS ► TEDIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, irritable, difficult to please; fidgety, restless → 1892 Eng. dial.
► TID lively, sprightly, frolicsome; skittish, restless, fidgety → 1825 Eng. dial.
► TWEAKY agitated or fidgety, esp. after taking a stimulant drug → 1993
► TWITCHETY twitchy, nervous, fidgety; also, of a thing, moving back and forth rapidly; jerky, jumpy → 1859
► TWITCHY nervous, fidgety, irritable, agitated, restless → 1787
► WADGETTY fidgety, nervous → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ALL-OVER FIDGES, THE fidgets, nervousness → 1934 Amer. dial.
► BUDGE a fit of nervousness, the fidgets → 1824 Amer. dial.
► BUMFIDGETS an aggravated state of nervousness; the fidgets → 1950 Amer. dial.
► FANTODS a feeling of fidgety uneasiness; fidgets; restlessness; a state of anxiety or excitement → 1876 Amer. dial.
► FEAK a fidgety, anxious state → 1859 Eng. dial.
► FEAKS the fidgets, a state of restlessness → 1859 Eng. dial.
► FEEKMENT a state of restlessness or fidgeting → 1866 Eng. dial.
► FERRICK a fidget. a state of restlessness → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIDGE a shrug, a twitch, a restless movement; a fidget, mental agitation → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FIKE bustle, fuss, fidgeting; a stir, a disturbance → 1787 Sc.
► ITEMS fidgets, antics → 1867 Eng. dial.
► JIFFLE a fidget; a shuffling movement → 19C Sc. & Eng. dial.
► JIM-JAMS a creepy feeling; the fidgets; a fit of depression; a state of nervousness or unease → 1896 colloq.
► JIMMIES, THE the fidgets, jitteriness; a fit of depression → 1928 colloq.
► JUMPS, THE feelings of nervousness or apprehension; fidgets; exaggerated startle responses → 1912 Amer. dial.
► MIDGETTY-MORROWS the fidgets → 19C Eng. dial.
► TWITCHINESS 1834 – a being twitchy; nervousness, fidgetiness, irritability

NOUNS – PERSON
► BREFFITS a fidgety, restless person; a term applied to a child when in a state of breathless anxiety → 1861 Eng. dial.
► BUMFIDDLER a busybody; a fidgety person → 1611
► FIDGE a fidget, a restless person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FUSS-BUDGET a nervous, fidgety person; a person who is continually making a fuss → 1904 colloq.
► FUSS-FART a fussy, fidgety, nervous or meddlesome person → 1918 US sl.
► FUSS-POT a fussy, fidgety, nervous or meddlesome person → 1921 colloq.
► GOOGEEN a fidgety, capricious person; generally used of a woman → 20C Irish sl.
► MAGGOT a fidgety, restless child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MONKEY ON A STICK a thin man with jerky movements; a fidgety, restless, or agitated person → c1880 colloq. 
► NE’ER-REST a restless, fidgety person → 1872 Sc. 
► REUL an unruly person or animal; a rude, unmannerly clown, a romp, a fidget → 1897 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAWPIE a fidgety person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWITCHER a fidgety or twitchy person; one who makes short, sudden, spasmodic movements → 1793
► WORRIT a worrying, over-anxious person; a querulous person; one who teases or pesters; a fidget → 1848 Eng. dial.
► WRINGLE-GUT a restless, fretful person; a nervous, fidgety man → 1777 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► ARSLE to move when in a sitting posture; hence, to shuffle, to sit unquietly, to fidget → 1898 Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► ASSLE AROUND to fidget; to trifle → 1920 Amer. sl.
► FEAK to flutter, to be officiously busy about trifles, to be idle, to fidget; to be uneasy or anxious → 1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FERRET ABOUT to move about restlessly; to fidget; to worry, to be uneasy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FERRICK to fidget or move about restlessly → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIDGE to fidget; to move restlessly → 1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FIDGLE to fidget → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIGGLE to fidget about, to wriggle → a1652 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FIKE to move restlessly, to fidget → 1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FIRTLE to trifle, to dawdle, to appear busy and do little; to fidget, to move about distractedly → 1881 Eng. dial.
► FRAB to harass, worry, fret, fidget; to irritate, excite → 1848 Eng. dial.
► FRICKLE to fidget, to worry about a thing → 19C Eng. dial.
► FUSSOCK with about: to make a fuss, to bustle about quickly; to fidget, to irritate → 1892 Eng. dial.
► HAVE SNAKES IN ONE’S BOOTS to be fidgety or uneasy; to have delirium tremens → 1876 Amer. sl.
► HAVE THE FIKES to have the fidgets → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HOTCH to move jerkily up and down; to shift about with discomfort or impatience; to fidget → c1440 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► JIFFLE to fidget; to be restless; to shuffle → 1674 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOIL to be fidgety or restless; to worry; to be in a flurry, mess, or confusion → 1870 Eng. dial.
► MOP to fidget about; to behave affectedly and fantastically → 1811 Eng. dial.
► NANNICK ► NANNOCK ► NONNOCK ► NONNUCK to play the fool; to play when one should be working; to idle away one’s time; to fidget → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NESTLE to be uneasy or restless; to fidget; to move or bustle about; to trifle → a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NIBBLE to fidget or play with, to fiddle with the fingers → 1829 Sc. 
► PATTER to fidget; to shuffle about on the feet uneasily → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PATTER-PATTER to walk in and in out constantly; to fidget about → 1825 Sc.  
► QUIDDLE to trifle, to waste time; to be anxious about trifles; to fuss about, to fidget → 1832 now chiefly Eng. & Amer. dial.
► QUILT to be very fidgety → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUTCH AROUND to wriggle, to squirm, to fidget → 1916 Amer. dial.
► SAINT VITUS DANCE to move in a fidgety, jerking manner → 1621 UK sl.
► SCHROOCH AROUND to fidget, to squirm → 1939 Amer. dial.
► SCHUSSEL to fidget; to be restless → 1996 Amer. dial.
► SCROOCH AROUND ► SCROOTCH to fidget, to squirm → 1939 Amer. dial.
► TARTAR to move about restlessly and noisily; to blunder about; to toss, to fidget, to wriggle → 1928 Sc.
► TEW to toss, to shake about; to be restless or constantly moving; to fidget → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIDDLE to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss → 1747 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
► TITTLE to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss → 17C obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
► VOCATE to fidget about → 1863 Eng. dial. obs.