| 单词 | fidgety |
| 释义 | fidgety (once / 7238 pages) adj Someone who's fidgety is jittery, restless, or anxious. It's pretty common to be a little fidgety before a big test or a job interview. A nervous airplane passenger might be fidgety, and a young child on the same flight could be fidgety simply because she's bored and itchy to move around. Fidgety comes from fidget, "move nervously," which in the late 1600s was the fidget, or the fidgets "uneasiness," from a now-obsolete verb, fidge, "move restlessly." WORD FAMILYfidgety: fidgetiness, fidgetyer+/fidget: fidgeted, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgetted, fidgetting, fidgety USAGE EXAMPLESThe woman said she put her groceries on the ground and was closing a fidgety gate when, “suddenly, I heard footsteps on the gravel.” Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) “It’s not a coincidence that people who seem fidgety or who can’t sit still tend to be skinny,” he says. Time(Dec 07, 2016) It was because he was acting “erratic” and “fidgety,” the sergeant’s report said. New York Times(Dec 03, 2016) adj nervous and unable to relax Syn antsy, fretful, itchy tense in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
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