Definitions for budge
bʌdʒbudge

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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)

2. stir, shift, budge, agitateverb

   move very slightly

   "He shifted in his seat"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. budgeverb

   To move.

   I've been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won't budge an inch.

2. budgeverb

   To yield in one's opinions or beliefs.

3. budgeverb

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

4. Etymology: From bouger.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. Budgenoun

   The dressed skin or fur of lambs. Dict.

3. 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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Budge

   Budge is a verb, meaning to move.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Budgeverb

   to move off; to stir; to walk away

2. Budge

   brisk; stirring; jocund

3. Budgenoun

   a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits

4. Budgeadjective

   lined with budge; hence, scholastic

5. Budgeadjective

   austere or stiff, like scholastics

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.]

2. Budge

   buj, n. lambskin fur.—adj. pompous: stiff. [Derivation unknown.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Move

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How to pronounce budge?

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   Australian

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How to say budge in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of budge in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of budge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of budge in a Sentence

1. Emily Kirkland:

   If there's not action, we're going to lose the ability to have free and fair elections, kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is refusing to budge. It's incredibly upsetting.

2. Alex Whipple:

   These items have been forensically tested and they do link Mr. Whipple to our missing child, Elizabeth, they also have evidence that link them to the residence that they were in and also links them together outside the home. UTAH POLICE HUNT FOR MISSING 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL; UNCLE NAMED MAIN SUSPECT Whipple was located around 3 p.m. on Saturday in a rural area that isabout a 15-minute drive from Logan, and was on foot when authorities found him with drug paraphernalia, according to Budge.The 21-year-old was booked into jail on an active warrant after he absconded from probation and during an interview with police made statementsthat authorities were.

3. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes:

   If you never budge, don't expect a push.

4. Eric Vercoutre:

   We will pursue our actions to make the French government budge, from midday Thursday we will carry out actions disrupting the tunnel.

5. Rod Laver:

   It really doesn’t worry me, when Don Budge won it in 1938, and I did it in ’62, he says: ‘We’re in a special club here. There’s only two of us in it.’.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=budge
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Budge
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=budge
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budge
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budge
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=budge
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=budge