A person sitting still on the outside and not still at all: a foot swinging, a pen turning, a sleeve being twisted, a body shifting in a chair. Every movement is small, every movement repeats, and almost none of them are planned — the hands keep going while the mind waits. Hold that picture and the rest of the word follows, because English simply gives the same name to the movement, to the person who makes it, and to the little object made to receive it.
From the word’s history
The source derives fidget from fidge, meaning to fidget, plus a frequentative ending, possibly going back through Middle English to Old English -ettan.
來源說 fidget 來自舊字 fidge(動來動去),加上一個表示「一再重複」的字尾,這個字尾可能一路追到古英文的 -ettan。那個「一再重複」正好是這個字的關鍵:重點從來不是動了一下,而是停不下來地一直動。
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