fidget

Meanings

Plural: fidgets

Noun

• a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
  • "he's got the fidgets"
• A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.
• A person who fidgets, especially habitually.
• An object intended to be fidgeted with (such as a tool or toy).

Verb

• move restlessly
  • "The child is always fidgeting in his seat"
• To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
• To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

Synonyms

fidgeter, fidgetiness, restlessness