About The Word Budge
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What's The Definition Of Budge?
[n] United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
[v] move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" Synonyms | Synonyms for Budge: agitate | Don Budge | John Donald Budge | shift | stir Related Terms | Find terms related to Budge: advance | alcohol | aqua vitae | ascend | back | back up | booze | change | change place | circle | climb | descend | drink | ebb | firewater | flow | get over | go | go around | go round | go sideways | grog | gyrate | hooch | juice | mount | move | move over | plunge | progress | regress | retrogress | rise | rotate | run | sauce | shift | sink | soar | spin | stir | stream | subside | travel | wane | whirl See Also | move | tennis player Budge In Webster's Dictionary \Budge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budged}; 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}, v. i.]
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
I'll not budge an inch, boy. --Shak.
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From
rascals worse than they. --Shak.
\Budge\, a. [See {Budge}, v.] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] --South. \Budge\, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. {Budge}, n.] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits. \Budge\, a. 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. |
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