Scottish dialect; prone to fidgeting; restless, fussy, or characterized by nervous movement.
From fike + -y (adjective suffix). Scottish dialect formation following standard English patterns of creating adjectives from verbs with -y.
In Scottish English, you can describe a person as 'fikey' — it's not just describing what they're doing, but who they are, making their nervous energy part of their identity.
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