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budge
/bʌdʒ/
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What does budge mean?
verb
- To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
- To move; to shift from a fixed position.
- To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
More meanings (6)
verb
- To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
- 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.
- (obsolete, slang) Alcoholic drink.
proper noun
- A surname.
adjective
- (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
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IPA pronunciation
/bʌdʒ/
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The brute faced here and there, his pig eyes blinking, his snout upraised, trying to locate us, and declining to budge.
Well, while the mother munches, chews, expresses the juices and swallows, the youngsters do not budge from their camping-ground on her back.
More book examples (3)
It would not budge an inch for the beaters, and charged the elephants time after time, sending them flying from the jungle most ignominiously.
“I bet I know it. Don’t you stir nor budge. He ain’t sharp enough to notice us. Drunk, the same as usual, likely—blamed old rip!”
Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to this leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsman’s imagination?