fidget
verb (used without object)
to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am fidgeting to give the order to cast off.
From Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore