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fidgeting, ppl. a.|ˈfɪdʒɪtɪŋ|
[f. fidget v. + -ing2.]
In senses of the vb.
1672Wycherly Love in a Wood ii. i, He is a fidgetting, censorious, gossiping, quibbling wretch. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. li. 319 My fidgetting Lord thrust in..his sharp face. 1785F. Burney Diary 25 Nov., This was rather fidgetting intelligence. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 5 He had warred for quiet through the fidgeting reign of William. 1865Pall 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. 1892Temple Bar Mag. Dec. 570 Pamela is..fidgettingly handling the little objects. |