Definition of "budge"

budge¹

/bʌd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present budges, present participle budging, simple past and past participle budged
1. (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
  Quotations
  Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.
  c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 208, column 1
  […] 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 […]
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the batell of Dreux”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], page 148
  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.
  2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian
2. (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.
3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
  Quotations
  If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge.
  1933, Richard Curle, Corruption, page 75
4. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
5. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

budge²

/bʌd͡ʒ/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.
  1649, John Milton, Observations
  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.
  1787, An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, page 282
adjective
not comparable
1. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
  Quotations
  Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
  The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little and that little said, 'Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
  1784, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church - Volume 7, page 393
  "My boy looked at me very budge," i.e., solemn.
  1931, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 684

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