budge

English

Etymology 1

From French bouger.

Alternative forms

• budg (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bʌdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /bVdZ/

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.

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.

Derived terms

• budge up
• budger

Synonyms

• shift

Translations

intransitive: to move

• Bulgarian: помръдвам се (bg) (pomrǎdvam se)
• Dutch: bewegen (nl)
• Finnish: hievahtaa (fi), liikahtaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)

• Polish: przesuwać się / przesunąć się, poruszyć się, drgnąć
• Russian: двигаться (ru) (dvigatʹsja)

transitive: to move

• Bulgarian: помръдвам (bg) (pomrǎdvam)
• Dutch: bewegen (nl)
• Finnish: hievauttaa (fi), liikauttaa (fi)

• Polish: przesunąć, poruszyć
• Russian: двигать (ru) (dvigatʹ)

to yield in opinion

• Bulgarian: отстъпвам (bg) (otstǎpvam), отдръпвам се (bg) (otdrǎpvam se)
• Dutch: toegeven (nl), meegaan (nl)

• Finnish: myöntyä (fi), antaa periksi (fi)

sports: to improve spot of decision

Etymology 2

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• debug