fidge
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of fidge
C18: probably variant of dialect fitch to fidget
Example Sentences
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“I was all of a fidge, uncle,” I said laughing.
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
In 1845—after saying good-bye and "Why will you go to Switzerland? there will be such a fidge about you when you're gone"—Turner lost his health, and was never himself again.
From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
Auld Coila now may fidge fu' fain, She's gotten poets o' her ain; Chiels wha their chanters winna hain, But tune their lays, Till echoes a' resound again Her weel-sung praise.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
What is it, that makes you fidge up and down so?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
“Dog on it,” said James, giving a fidge with his hainches; “Dog on it, as I am a living sinner, that is the head of a Willie-goat.”
From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth
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