Definition of "fidget"

fidget

/ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present fidgets, present participle fidgeting or fidgetting, simple past and past participle fidgeted or fidgetted
1. (intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
  Quotations
  "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
  1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
  Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.
  1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, spoken by Johnny (David Thewlis)
2. (transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
  Quotations
  “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
  1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott‎
noun
plural fidgets
1. A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
2. (informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
3. A toy intended to be fidgeted with.