antsy (redirected from antsiest)

ant·sy  (nts)

adj. ant·si·er, ant·si·est Slang

1. Restless or impatient; fidgety: The long wait made the children antsy.

2. Nervous; apprehensive: "Camps got shot up all the time, but if there wasn't a shoot-up, they'd get antsy" Harper's.

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[Perhaps from the incessant motions of ants.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

antsy - nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" fidgety, fretful, itchy tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension