budge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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)
    Don Budge; John Donald Budge.
  2. verb move very slightly
    shift; stir; agitate.
    • He shifted in his seat

WordNet

Budge intransitive verb
Etymology
F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Budged present participle & verbal noun Budging
Definitions
  1. 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.
Budge adjective
Etymology
See Budge, v.
Definitions
  1. Brisk; stirring; jocund. Obs. South.
Budge noun
Etymology
OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, n.
Definitions
  1. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
Budge adjective
Definitions
  1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns." Milton.
  2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
    Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton.

Webster 1913