Budge

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  • intransitive verb. To move or stir slightly.
  • intransitive verb. To alter a position or attitude.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to move slightly.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to alter a position or attitude.
  • noun. Fur made from lambskin dressed with the wool outside, formerly used to trim academic robes.
  • adjective. Overformal; pompous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To move; stir; change position; give way: now usually with a negative, implying stubborn resistance to pressure.
  • To move; stir; change the position of.
  • Brisk; jocund.
  • noun. A leathern bag.
  • noun. Lambskin dressed with the wool outward, much used in the Elizabethan era and since as an inexpensive fur for the edging of garments.
  • noun. Same as budge-barrel.
  • [⟨ budge, 2.] Trimmed or adorned with budge (see I., 2): as, “budge gowns,”
  • Scholastic; pedantic; austere; surly; stiff; formal: as, “budge doctors,”
  • noun. One who slips into a house or shop to steal cloaks, etc.; a sneak-thief.
  • noun. Same as booze.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To move off; to stir; to walk away.
  • adjective. Brisk; stirring; jocund.
  • noun. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
  • adjective. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
  • adjective. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
  • adjective. one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession.
  • adjective. a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move.
  • verb. To move.
  • verb. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
  • verb. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
  • noun. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
  • adjective. austere or stiff, like scholastics
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. move very slightly
  • 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)
  • Word Usage
    "And your unwillingness to budge is demonstrated by the fact that you have major divisions WITHIN YOUR OWN PARTY!"
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    Form
    budge up  budged  budger  budging  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adjudge  begrudge  drudge  fudge  grudge  
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    verb-form
    budged  budges  budging