Definitions for Budge

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Budge budge

Spelling: [buhj]

IPA: /bʌdʒ/

Budge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Budge (bdegu).

Definitions for Budge

noun

1. a fur made from lambskin with the wool dressed outward, used especially as an inexpensive trimming on academic or official gowns.
2. (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.

adjective

1. made from, trimmed, or lined with budge.
2. Obsolete. pompous; solemn.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move; begin to move:
2. to cause (someone) to reconsider or change an opinion, decision, or stated position:

verb (used without object)

1. to move slightly; begin to move:
2. to change one's opinion or stated position; yield:

Origin of Budge

1580-90; Anglo-French, Middle French bouger to stir Vulgar Latin *bullicāre to bubble, frequentative of Latin bullīre; see boil¹

Examples for Budge

He was ordered into the boat at least half-a-dozen times, but swore he would not budge.

As for me, not a foot will I budge, till I have seen thee empty that bowl.

In this crisis, there were no hands on deck—no one willing to budge one iota from their respective ideological corners.

One might have a discharge of artillery; she did not care to budge once she had settled in a heap.

Nothing, it seems, will budge them from their opposition to give-and-take of governance.

The administration refused to budge on calling a spade a spade.

During his budge speech, Treasurer Joe Hockey proclaimed: “The age of entitlement is over.”

I tell you if a man cannot say to Nature: "budge me from this if ye can!"

The Democratic presidential administration refuses to budge, and the government is shut down.

She saw me, scanned me from head to foot, and did not budge.