fidget (n.) Look up fidget at Dictionary.com
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.) Look up fidget at Dictionary.com
1670s (implied in fidgetting); see fidget (n.). Related: Fidgeted.