fidgeting

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Restless; impatient. A low word.--Todd.


Fungus is one of those fidgeting, meddling quidnuncs with which this unhappy city is pestered.--Paulding, Salmagundi, Vol. 1. p. 40.

Peter seemed monstrous fidgety, and bimeby he allowed it was time to go.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 191.