a. [f. IDGET + -Y1.]
1. Inclined or disposed to fidget; uneasy, restless.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1788. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, IV. IV. 187. He declared if I was fidgety he should have no comfort.
1827. Scott, Jrnl., 10 Aug. This is a morning of fidgety, nervous confusion. I sought successively my box of Bramah pens, my proof-sheets, and last, not least anxiously, my spectacles.
1880. Miss Braddon, Just as I am, xviii. He held the somewhat fidgety horse.
2. Producing fidgetiness, disquieting. rare–1.
1885. Truth, 11 June, 927/1. Dining-rooms … fidgety with glitter.
Hence Fidgetily adv., in a fidgety manner.
1880. Miss Broughton, Sec. Th., II. iii. Gillian fidgetily watches her.
