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Webster 1913 Edition

Budge

Budge

(bŭj)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Budged
(bŭjd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Budging
.]
[F.
bouger
to stir, move (akin to Pr.
bojar
,
bolegar
, to stir, move, It.
bulicare
to boil, bubble), fr. L.
bullire
. See
Boil
,
Verb.
I.
]
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
I’ll not
budge
an inch, boy.
Shakespeare
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did
budge

From rascals worse than they.
Shakespeare

Budge

,
Adj.
[See
Budge
,
Verb.
]
Brisk; stirring; jocund.
[Obs.]
South.

Budge

,
Noun.
[OE.
bouge
bag, OF.
boge
,
bouge
, fr. L.
bulga
a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr.
bolc
, Gael.
bolg
. Cf.
Budge
,
Noun.
]
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; – used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

Budge

,
Adj.
1.
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
“Budge gowns.”
Milton.
2.
Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Those
budge
doctors of the stoic fur.
Milton.
Budge bachelor
,
one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession.
–
Budge barrel
(Mil.)
,
a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

Webster 1828 Edition

Budge

BUDGE

,
Verb.
T.
To move off; to stir; to wag. In America, wag is much used as equivalent to budge; but the use of both words is vulgar.

BUDGE

,
Noun.
The dressed skin or fur of lambs.

BUDGE

,
Adj.
Brisk; jocund.
1.
Surly; stiff; formal.

Definition 2024

budge

budge

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bʌdʒ/

Verb

budge ‎(third-person singular simple present budges, present participle budging, simple past and past participle budged)

  1. (intransitive) To move.
    I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
    • Shakespeare
      I'll not budge an inch, boy.
    • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:
      Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge, throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
  2. (transitive) To move.
    I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
  3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
    The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
  4. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms
Synonyms
Translations

Adjective

budge ‎(comparative more budge, superlative most budge)

  1. (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Middle English bouge from Latin bulga ‎(“a leathern bag or knapsack”).

Noun

budge ‎(uncountable)

  1. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
    • Milton
      They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.

Adjective

budge ‎(not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
    • Milton
      Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
Derived terms
  • budge bachelor
  • budge barrel

Anagrams

Etymology

Borrowing from French bouger.

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