| 单词 | the fidget(s |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe fidget(s 1. A condition of vague physical uneasiness, seeking relief in irregular bodily movements. Apparently first used in the fidget(s (now always plural) as if the name of a malady or pathological symptom (sometimes in definite pathological sense: see quot. 1876). Hence transferred a condition or mood of impatient uneasiness or restlessness. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > restlessness > [noun] > restless movement friggingc1560 fidget1674 nestling1699 fidge1728 fidgetiness1792 the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > state of nervous restlessness fidget1674 fidgetiness1792 jim-jams1896 jimmies1928 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 134 'Tis a..thing that has got the fidget. 1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 22 Jesu Maria! Madam Bridget..(Cried the square hoods in woeful fidget). 1753 World 15 Feb. 39 Fits of the fidgets. 1778 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 67 I was really in the Fidgets from thinking what my reception might be. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 222 Weavers of long tales, Give me the fidgets. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 45 Their arrival, owing to the fidget and hurry of Mrs. Mourtray, was somewhat premature. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. vii. 104 Her tongue was cruelly on the fidget to be let loose. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. viii. 233 The landlady and her daughter are on the fidgets. 1839 E. FitzGerald Lett. I. 51 I have got the fidgets in my right arm. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Fidgets, general restlessness and troublesome uneasiness of the nerves and muscles. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1865) 41 Palmer..still..felt..some fidget and nervousness. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 368 Wakefulness from..unrest of the peripheral nerves (fidgets), and similar causes, will generally be relieved by the bromides. < as lemmas |
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