 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Budge
noun: 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) [syn: {Don
Budge}, {John Donald Budge}]
verb: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: {stir}, {shift},
{agitate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Budge \Budge\ (b[u^]j), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Budged} (b[u^]jd);
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 (used without an object)]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Budge \Budge\, adjective [See {Budge}, v.]
Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Budge \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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Budge \Budge\, adjective
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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