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Fidget vs Cranky - What's the difference?

fidget | cranky |

As a verb fidget

is to wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.

As a noun fidget

is (informal) a person who fidgets, especially habitually.

As an adjective cranky is

(obsolete) weak, unwell.

fidget

English

Verb

  • To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
  • * 1883:
    • "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget ," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
  • To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage= “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.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A person who fidgets, especially habitually.

    • See also

    * have the fidgets

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    cranky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
  • Not in good working condition; shaky.
  • * 1914 , '', ''The River of Doubt ,
    • We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky , and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
  • Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
    • He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky .
  • Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
  • * 1934 December, ,
    • Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
  • (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.