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Fidget vs Fidge - What's the difference?

fidget | fidge |

As verbs the difference between fidget and fidge

is that fidget is to wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly while fidge is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) to fidget; jostle or shake.

As nouns the difference between fidget and fidge

is that fidget is (informal) a person who fidgets, especially habitually while fidge is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) a shake; fiddle or similar agitation.

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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    fidge

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
  • *1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges ," he continued in the pleading tone. "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a fool, I tell you. If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors..."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) A shake; fiddle or similar agitation.