What does budge mean?
Definitions for budge
bʌdʒbudge
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Princeton's WordNet
Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budgeverb
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)
stir, shift, budge, agitateverb
move very slightly
"He shifted in his seat"
Wiktionary
budgeverb
To move.
I've been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won't budge an inch.
budgeverb
To yield in one's opinions or beliefs.
budgeverb
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
Etymology: From bouger.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Budgeadjective
Surly; stiff; formal.
Etymology: of uncertain etymology.
O foolishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge doctors of the stoicks. John Milton.Budgenoun
The dressed skin or fur of lambs. Dict.
To BUDGEverb
To stir; to move off the place: a low word.
Etymology: bouger, Fr.
All your prisoners
In the lime grove, which weatherfends your cell,
They cannot budge till your release. William Shakespeare, Tempest.The mouse ne’er shun’d the cat, as they did budge
From rascals worse than they. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.I thought th’ hadst scorn’d to budge
For fear. Hudibras, cant. ii.
Wikipedia
Budge
Budge is a verb, meaning to move.
ChatGPT
budge
To budge means to move slightly or to shift position, usually after a period of being still or stuck. It can also mean to change one's opinion, attitude, or course of action, especially when it is difficult to do so.
Webster Dictionary
Budgeverb
to move off; to stir; to walk away
Budge
brisk; stirring; jocund
Budgenoun
a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits
Budgeadjective
lined with budge; hence, scholastic
Budgeadjective
austere or stiff, like scholastics
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Budge
buj, v.i. and v.t. to move or stir.—n. Budg′er, one who stirs. [Fr. bouger—It. bulicare, to boil, to bubble—L. bullire.]
Budge
buj, n. lambskin fur.—adj. pompous: stiff. [Derivation unknown.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BUDGE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Budge is ranked #18198 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Budge surname appeared 1,529 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Budge.
92.2% or 1,411 total occurrences were White.
3.6% or 56 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2% or 32 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.
0.6% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.3% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of budge in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of budge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of budge in a Sentence
I can't imagine the first-lien noteholders will budge on this.
We believe Microsoft would only buy TikTok with its core algorithm which the Chinese government and ByteDance was not willing to budge.
Budge said. Everything he has done has been quite deceitful and we have no reason to believe anything he told us was accurate.
If we suspect the numbers are true and we get a large number of our members who stand firm on their beliefs that this is an overreach, and they're not going to supply the information in the portal or submit to testing, then it's safe to say the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 % or less for this weekend coming up, that is not because of the FOP, that is 100 % because of the mayor's unwillingness to budge from her hard line. So whatever happens because of the manpower issue, that falls at the mayor's doorstep.
We would never have voted for the (civil unions) if we had been told stripping out the 'stepchild' was temporary, pending a new law. We will absolutely not budge on this.
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- تزحزحArabic
- отстъпвам, отдръпвам се, помръдвам, помръдвам сеBulgarian
- sich regenGerman
- cederSpanish
- liikauttaa, antaa periksi, myöntyä, hievauttaa, liikahtaa, hievahtaaFinnish
- bougerFrench
- mengalahIndonesian
- spostarsiItalian
- びくびくするJapanese
- meegaan, bewegen, toegevenDutch
- poruszyć, przesunąćPolish
- [[mover]]-[[se]]Portuguese
- двигать, двигатьсяRussian
- ขยับเขยื่อนThai
- kımıldamakTurkish
- ہلچلUrdu
- nhúc nhíchVietnamese
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