fidge

/ fɪdʒ /

verb

1. (intr) an obsolete word for fidget

Word History and Origins

Origin of fidge¹

C18: probably variant of dialect fitch to _fidget

Example Sentences

Wed Wabbit is Fidge’s projection of Minnie: demanding, insatiable and callously oblivious to her father’s absence.

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Without thinking, Fidge boots it into a car-filled street.

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As Minnie recovers in the hospital, her mother at her side, Fidge is banished to her cousin’s house, where her guilt, shame and resentment all roil into a cosmic thunderstorm that can only mean one thing: Fidge is about to go down the rabbit hole.

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The rabbit, in this case, is quite literal: Fidge wakes up inside “The Land of the Wimbley Woos,” lorded over by Wed Wabbit, now a 20-foot-tall tyrant king who speaks in a lispy, ear-shredding squeak and has oppressed the colorful garbage-can-shaped Wimbleys, whom Fidge must free in order to get home.

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“What if I die?” one of Fidge’s compatriots asks.

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