budge

Budge
    n 1: 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) [syn:
         {Budge}, {Don Budge}, {John Donald Budge}]
    v 1: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: {stir},
         {shift}, {budge}, {agitate}]
    

Budge \Budge\, a. [See {Budge}, v.]
   Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] --South.
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Budge \Budge\, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga
   a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc,
   Gael. bolg. Cf. {Budge}, n.]
   A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool
   on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of
   scholastic habits.
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Budge \Budge\, a.
   1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns."
      --Milton.
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   2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
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            Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. --Milton.
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   {Budge bachelor}, 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.

   {Budge barrel} (Mil.), 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.
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Budge \Budge\ (b[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budged} (b[u^]jd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Budging}.] [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to
   Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil,
   bubble), fr. L. bullire. See {Boil}, v. i.]
   To move off; to stir; to walk away.
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         I'll not budge an inch, boy.             --Shak.
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         The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge
         From rascals worse than they.            --Shak.
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46 Moby Thesaurus words for "budge":
      advance, alcohol, aqua vitae, ascend, back, back up, booze, change,
      change place, circle, climb, descend, drink, ebb, firewater, flow,
      get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, grog, gyrate,
      hooch, juice, mount, move, move over, plunge, progress, regress,
      retrogress, rise, rotate, run, sauce, shift, sink, soar, spin,
      stir, stream, subside, travel, wane, whirl