budge — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • in the negative

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (3)

   […]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[…]

   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.

   The gender equality picture stateside can also seem bleak, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting reproductive rights last summer. Women still make only 83 percent of what men do in the U.S.—a stat that has barely budged in the past 20 years.

2. To move; to shift from a fixed position.

   Usage

   • Transitive
   • in the negative

   Examples

   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.

   Usage

   • in the negative

   Examples

   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.

4. To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • Western
   • in the negative

   Examples

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

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

   Usage

   • in the negative

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • in the negative

   Examples

   They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.

   More examples (1)

   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.

Adjective

1. austere or stiff, like scholastics

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete
   • in the negative

   Examples

   Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

1. Alcoholic drink.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Slang
   • Uncountable
   • in the negative

Verb

1. move very slightly

   Synonyms

   stirshiftagitate

   Broader terms

   move

   Examples

   He shifted in his seat