fidget

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• UK, US: /ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: F IH1 JH IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ацыхцы́х (acəxcə́x) — a person who fidgets
• Abkhaz: агәаҭе́и (agwatéi) — a person who fidgets
• Afrikaans: vroetelaar — a person who fidgets
• Catalan: belluguet — a person who fidgets
• Catalan: ballaruga — a person who fidgets
• Dutch: zenuwlijder — a person who fidgets
• Finnish: sätkyttelijä — a person who fidgets
• French: gigoteur — a person who fidgets
• German: Zappelphilipp — a person who fidgets
• Greek: νευρόσπαστο (nevróspasto) — a person who fidgets
• Irish: giodam — a person who fidgets
• Irish: goraí — a person who fidgets
• Irish: útamálaí — a person who fidgets
• Polish: wiercipięta — a person who fidgets
• Russian: егоза́ (jegozá) — a person who fidgets
• Russian: непосе́да (neposéda) — a person who fidgets
• Abkhaz: аҳәацыҳәацра (aḥwacəḥwacra) — to move around nervously
• Abkhaz: аҳәаҵәы́ҳәаҵәара (aḥwacwʼə́ḥwacwʼara) — to move around nervously
• Afrikaans: vroetel — to move around nervously
• Arabic: تَمَلْمَلَ (tamalmala) — to move around nervously
• Bulgarian: шавам (šavam) — to move around nervously
• Bulgarian: въртя се (vǎrtja se) — to move around nervously
• Catalan: bellugar-se — to move around nervously
• Chinese Mandarin: 坐立不安 (zuòlìbù'ān) — to move around nervously
• Dutch: friemelen — to move around nervously
• Dutch: de kriebels hebben — to move around nervously
• Esperanto: svingiĝi — to move around nervously
• Estonian: nihelema — to move around nervously
• Finnish: sätkiä — to move around nervously
• Finnish: sätkytellä — to move around nervously
• Finnish: nykiä — to move around nervously
• Finnish: nytkiä — to move around nervously
• French: gigoter — to move around nervously
• French: remuer — to move around nervously
• German: zappeln — to move around nervously
• German: herumzappeln — to move around nervously
• Hungarian: fészkelődik — to move around nervously
• Hungarian: izeg-mozog — to move around nervously
• Hungarian: babrál — to move around nervously
• Hungarian: mocorog — to move around nervously
• Irish: bheith corrthónach — to move around nervously
• Irish: bheith giongach — to move around nervously
• Irish: bheith míshocair — to move around nervously
• Japanese: せかせかする — to move around nervously
• Korean: 안절부절못하다 (anjeolbujeolmothada) — to move around nervously
• Māori: oreore — to move around nervously
• Māori: mānānana — to move around nervously
• Māori: irirangi — to move around nervously
• Khiamniungan Naga: tǖlālā — to move around nervously
• Norwegian: sprelle — to move around nervously
• Polish: wiercić się — to move around nervously
• Portuguese: estar inquieto — to move around nervously
• Romanian: a se foi — to move around nervously
• Russian: ёрзать (jórzatʹ) — to move around nervously
• Russian: верте́ться (vertétʹsja) — to move around nervously
• Serbo-Croatian: врпо̀љити се — to move around nervously
• Serbo-Croatian: vrpòljiti se — to move around nervously
• Spanish: revolverse — to move around nervously
• Spanish: no quedarse quieto — to move around nervously
• Spanish: no parar de moverse — to move around nervously
• Spanish: moverse nerviosamente — to move around nervously
• Spanish: moverse compulsivamente — to move around nervously
• Tagalog: kuyakoy — to move around nervously