FIDDLE FOOTED adjective (fid-l-foo t-id)

adjective

1. Informal. restlessly wandering.


Quotes

Instead, they just kept moving, a pair of fiddle-footed ramblers, following the wind, until that drifting brought them out here.
--*Robert Coover,*Ghost Town, 1998


Being fiddle-footed was its own peculiar blessing and curse at the same time.
--*Jon Sharpe,*The Trailsman #290: Mountain Mavericks, 2005



Origin

Fiddle-footed was first recorded in 1945-50.