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Fidget vs Fooster - What's the difference?

fidget | fooster |

As verbs the difference between fidget and fooster

is that fidget is to wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly while fooster is ''fústar, to Bustle (move busily) or fidget.

As a noun fidget

is a person who fidgets, especially habitually.

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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    fooster

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Ireland) '', to Bustle (move busily) or fidget.
  • * 7 July 1894 , Charles Dickens (editor), Kattie's Wedding , F. M. Evans and Co., Limited:
    • "Ony if he wouldn't spind so much time foosthering about with thim little hins, bad luck to thim, that lays an igg no bigger than a marble," she added plaintively, as the trio started down the village street.

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