Definitions for budges

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Spelling: [buhj]

IPA: /bʌdʒ/

Budges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in budges (bdegsu).

Definitions for budges

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 budges

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

Examples for budges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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