budge

verb

1. (intransitive)To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

   “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.”

   “Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.”

   “[…]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[…]”

   “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.”

   “The gender equality picture stateside can also seem bleak, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting reproductive rights last summer. Women still make only 83 percent of what men do in the U.S.—a stat that has barely budged in the past 20 years.”

2. (transitive)To move; to shift from a fixed position.

   “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.”

3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   “The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.”

   “If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge.”

4. (Canada, Western)To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.

   “Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!”

5. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

noun

1. (uncountable)A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

   “They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.”

   “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.”

2. (obsolete, slang, uncountable)Alcoholic drink.

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)austere or stiff, like scholastics

   “Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.”

   “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.”

   “"My boy looked at me very budge," i.e., solemn.”

name

1. A surname.