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Fidget vs Nidget - What's the difference?

fidget | nidget |

As nouns the difference between fidget and nidget

is that fidget is (informal) a person who fidgets, especially habitually while nidget is (obsolete) a fool or idiot; a coward.

As a verb fidget

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

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

    Anagrams

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    nidget

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nigeot * nigget

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fool or idiot; a coward.
  • (Camden)
    (Webster 1913)