budge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To move

   To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

   • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
   • Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.
   • […]although his ſouldiers were much moved and offended to ſee their fellowes put to the worſt, he could not be induced to bouge from his place[…]
2. 2

   To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   • The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
   • If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge.
3. 3

   To cut or butt (in line)

   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!
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   1. 4

      To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

   2. 5

      A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging…

      A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

      • They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.
      • One hundred pieces of green silk for the Knights; fourteen budge furs for surcoats; thirteen hoods of budge for clerks, and seventy furs of lamb for liveries in summer.
   3. 6

      austere or stiff, like scholastics

      • Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
      • The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little and that little said, 'Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
      • "My boy looked at me very budge," i.e., solemn.
   4. 7

      Alcoholic drink.

   5. 8

      A surname.

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