英语词汇fidget的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fidget
词源	fidget n. 1670s, as the fidget "uneasiness," later the fidgets, from a verb fidge "move restlessly" (16c., surviving longest in Scottish), perhaps from Middle English fiken "to fidget, hasten" (see fike (v.)). fidget v. 1670s (implied in fidgetting); see fidget (n.). Related: Fidgeted. Entries linking to fidget fike v. Middle English fyken "move about restlessly" (early 13c.), from Old Norse fikjask "to desire eagerly," fika (in fika sig upp "climb up nimbly," of a spider), probably from a general North Sea Germanic word related to the source of German ficken "to move about briskly." Later as "give trouble, vex" (1570s), a sense surviving especially in Scottish. Hence also fikery "vexatious trouble" (1823); fiky "causing trouble about trifles" (1768). fidgety adj. 1730s, from fidget (n.) + -y (2). Related: Fidgetiness. updated on November 06, 2014
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fidget n.