fidgeting
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It's a daft body that cannot hear a word of praise without turning as red as a turkey-cock and fidging like a parched pea on a drum-head.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
Where ha you ben fidging abroad, since you your neele lost?”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
"What makes ye laugh?" cries Lillyfair, As she comes tripping ben; "Oh do come tell, dear Christobel, For I am fidging fain."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
The world forgot that the war had been started by an autocratic Kaiser and that Germany now had a new, fidging democracy.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
The gentleman looked "fidging fain" to be gone, but submitted in a manner that made Mary like him in spite of his profession.
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
