fidget
verb (used without object)
to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
have been fidgeting
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present perfect progressiveof fidget.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I have been fidgeting so, hearing you talking to Uncle Bobo downstairs.
From Little Miss Joy by Emma Marshall
As it continued, Mrs. Marshall-Smith went through the manoeuvers which in a less perfectly bred person would have been fidgeting….
From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Then we have been fidgeting ourselves for nothing.
From The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn
I have been fidgeting, dear, as you say, and it has made me nervous and low-spirited; but I’m better now for talking to you, my boy, and letting you share my trouble.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
‘Just as Jess would have been fidgeting to show off her eleven and a bit!’
From Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
