All 3 Uses of
fidget
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Has the fidgets.†
Chpt 4fidgets = makes small restless movements
- Give me the fidgets to look.†
Chpt 8 *
- instead of sending her to Skerrys academy where shed have to learn not like me getting all IS at school only hed do a thing like that all the same on account of me and Boylan thats why he did it Im certain the way he plots and plans everything out I couldnt turn round with her in the place lately unless I bolted the door first gave me the fidgets coming in without knocking first when I put the chair against the door just as I was washing myself there below with the glove get on your nerves then doing the loglady all day put her in a glasscase with two at a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before sh†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(fidget) to make small restless movements
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and usually in older literature), fidgets can reference a condition of restlessness irrespective of movements.