budge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.
Inflected forms:
form: budges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: budging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: budged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: budged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bouge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: budg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
[…]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.
gloss: To move; to shift from a fixed position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
gloss: To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
pos: verb
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.
gloss: To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
Western
examples: Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!
gloss: To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
pos: verb
gloss: A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: shift
Derived words: budgeable
budge an inch
budger
budge the needle
budge up
unbudged
unbudging
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: помръдвам се
roman: pomrǎdvam se
lang: Czech
word: hnout se
lang: Czech
word: pohnout se
lang: Dutch
word: bewegen
lang: Dutch
word: meegeven
lang: Finnish
word: hievahtaa
lang: Finnish
word: liikahtaa
lang: Finnish
word: antaa periksi
lang: French
word: bouger
lang: German
word: von der Stelle rühren
lang: German
word: vom Fleck bewegen
lang: German
word: regen
lang: Māori
word: ngaoko
lang: Polish
word: przesuwać się
lang: Polish
word: przesunąć się
lang: Polish
word: drgnąć
lang: Portuguese
word: mover-se
lang: Romanian
word: clinti
lang: Russian
word: дви́гаться
roman: dvígatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: тронуться
roman: tronutʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: mover
lang: Tamil
word: அசை
roman: acai
lang: Thai
word: ขยับ
roman: kà-yàp
lang: Ukrainian
word: зру́шитися
roman: zrúšytysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: зсу́нутися
roman: zsúnutysja
lang: Bulgarian
word: помръдвам
roman: pomrǎdvam
lang: Czech
word: hnout
lang: Czech
word: pohnout
lang: Dutch
word: bewegen
lang: Finnish
word: hievauttaa
lang: Finnish
word: liikauttaa
lang: French
word: bouger
lang: Polish
word: przesunąć
lang: Polish
word: poruszyć
lang: Romanian
word: muta
lang: Romanian
word: clinti
lang: Russian
word: дви́гать
roman: dvígatʹ
lang: Russian
word: стронуть
roman: stronutʹ
lang: Spanish
word: mover
lang: Tamil
word: அசை
roman: acai
lang: Thai
word: ขยับ
roman: kà-yàp
lang: Ukrainian
word: зру́шити
roman: zrúšyty