To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
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An object intended to be fidgeted with (such as a tool or toy).