budge

See also: Budge

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French bougier, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”).

Alternative forms

• budg (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌdʒ/

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move.

   I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, scene i]:

     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. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

   Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!

5. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
   • (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• shift

Derived terms

• budge up
• budger

Translations

intransitive: to move

• Bulgarian: помръдвам се (pomrǎdvam se)
• Dutch: bewegen (nl)
• Finnish: hievahtaa, liikahtaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
• French: bouger (fr)
• German: sich regen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: ngaoko
• Polish: przesuwać się / przesunąć się, drgnąć
• Portuguese: mover-se
• Russian: дви́гаться (ru) (dvígatʹsja), тронуться (ru) pf (tronutʹsja)
• Spanish: mover (es) (pronominal)

transitive: to move

• Bulgarian: помръдвам (bg) (pomrǎdvam)
• Dutch: bewegen (nl)
• Finnish: hievauttaa, liikauttaa
• French: bouger (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: przesunąć (pl), poruszyć (pl)
• Russian: дви́гать (ru) (dvígatʹ), стронуть (ru) pf (stronutʹ)
• Spanish: mover (es)

to yield in opinion

• Bulgarian: отстъпвам (bg) (otstǎpvam), отдръпвам се (otdrǎpvam se)
• Dutch: toegeven (nl), meegaan (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: myöntyä (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
• Russian: уступить (ru) (ustupitʹ)

sports: to improve spot of decision

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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”). Doublet of bulge.

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.
(See the entry for “budge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• “budge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “budge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• debug