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▪ I. fidge, n. dial. or colloq.|fɪdʒ|
[f. next vb.]
1. The action or habit of fidgeting; the state of being fidgety: in phr. to be in a fidge; also, a commotion, stir, fuss.
1731Swift Tim & Fables Wks. 1778 IX. 158 The twist, the squeeze, the rump, the fidge and all. 1790J. Macaulay Poems 129 No ane gi'es e'er a fidge or fyke, Or yet a moan. 1832W. Stephenson Gateshead Local Poems 56 He's in a fidge To get to Beamish forge. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 189 ‘There'll be such a fidge about you, when you're gone.’
2. A restless person.
1884in Cheshire Gloss.
▪ II. fidge, v. Obs. exc. dial.|fɪdʒ|
See also fig v.3
[Of obscure origin; the sense closely resembles that of fike, but etymological connexion is hardly possible, unless the form has undergone onomatopœic modification. Cf. Ger. ficken to move about briskly.]
1. intr. To move about restlessly or uneasily; also, to fidge about, fidge abroad, fidge to and fro. Of a limb: To twitch.
1575J. Still Gamm. Gurton i. iv. in Hazl. Dodsley III. 184 Where ha' you been fidging abroad, since you your nee'le lost? 1577Breton Wks. Young Wit (T)., Some [dame] would fidge, as though she had the itch. 1667Dryden Maiden Queen iii. i, What is it, that makes you fidge up and down so? 1700Congreve Way of World v. 77 The good Judge..fidges off and on his Cushion. 1728Swift Mullinix & Timothy, You wriggle, fidge, and make a rout. 1786Burns Ordination i, Kilmarnock wabsters fidge and claw. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. i. iii. (1886) 20 ‘Look..how my fingers fidges.’
b. To be eager and restless. to fidge fu' fain: (Sc.) to express pleasurable eagerness by restless movements.
1785Burns To W. Simpson vi, Auld Coila, now, may fidge fu' fain, She's gotten Poets o' her ain. 1790― Tam O'Shanter 185 Even Satan glowr'd and fidg'd fu' fain. 1803R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 57 The barn and the byre..Will just seem like cronies yen's fidgin to see.
2. trans. To twitch, shrug. rare.
1786Burns Prayer to Sc. Representatives vi, Ne'er claw your lug, an' fidge your back, And hum an' haw.
Hence ˈfidging vbl. n.
1604T. M. Black Bk. Middleton's Wks. V. 525 The fidging of gallants to Norfolk and up and down countries. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §124 (1740) 392 It was by their perpetual fidging about from Place to Place. |