skinnylatte,
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What’s a word or phrase in a language you speak that describes someone who is nervous? Not just nervous about an exam or something but like, you’re at an airport and the person next to you is shuffling anxiously not wanting to miss the boarding announcement even though it’s at least an hour away, and they just can’t stop shuffling? More a way of being.

In Singlish, it’s ‘kan cheong spider’. You can buy a watch with a spider too: https://shopperboard.com/Kan-Cheong-Spider-Watch/product/20

It comes from 紧张

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neurologo,
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@skinnylatte In MX we say: “parece que tiene chincuales” (a worm called oxiuros, that causes pruritus in the anal and buttocks area)

skinnylatte,
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@neurologo wow!!

drell,
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@skinnylatte Antsy.

pixiecata,
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@skinnylatte We'd call that person "praning" (accent on the second syllable), or Filipino slang for "paranoid". People who are praning are sometimes in a mixed state of hyper-awareness and anxiety. They make backups of backups.

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