• (British) IPA: /bʌdʒ/

budge (budges, present participle budging; past and past participle budged)

1. (intransitive) To move.

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

   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act PROLOGUE, scene i]:

     I'll not budge an inch, boy.

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals ↗", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     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.

2. (transitive) To move.

   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.

   The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.

4. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

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

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

• shift

• French: bouger
• German: sich regen
• Portuguese: mover-se
• Russian: дви́гаться
• Spanish: mover (pronominal)

• French: bouger
• Russian: дви́гать
• Spanish: mover

• Russian: уступить

budge

1. (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.

budge (uncountable)

1. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
   • 1649, John Milton, Observations

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

budge (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance)​, [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864 ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837 ↗:

     Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.

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