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verb

Budge v. i. (past & past part. budged; pres. part. budging) To move off; to stir; to walk away. "I'll not budge an inch, boy." "The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they."

noun

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.

adjective

Budge adj. Brisk; stirring; jocund. (Obs.)

Budge adj.

Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns."

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. "Those budge doctors of the stoic fur."

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" Quotes from Famous Books

... respect. If a bullock lies down and refuses to do his work, no amount of persuasion will induce him to change his mind. Natives even go so far as to light straw under him when all other efforts to make him budge fail. More often, when blows and energetic tail-twistings have no effect on him, the beast has to be humoured in some way. His mind is often restored to its normal equilibrium by inducing him to change ...

— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... to this assault, and smiled down upon her. "Without you and without it I will not budge. Come now, this is the end. I never meant ...

— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain

... the Market and Grain-of-Salt jumped off the donkey. But while he was getting down Palikare had time to gaze about him, and when Perrine tried to make him go through the iron gate at the entrance he refused to budge. ...

— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot

... saw a big fish rising, I put a dry fly over him; the idiot took it. Up stream he ran, then down stream, then he yielded to the rod and came near me. I tried to unship my landing-net from my button-hole. Vain labour! I twisted and turned the handle, it would not budge. Finally, I stooped, and attempted to ladle the trout out with the short net; but he broke the gut, and went off. A landing-net is a tedious thing to carry, so is a creel, and a creel is, to me, a superfluity. There is never anything to put in it. If I do catch ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... stuck a brace of ray-guns in their belts and looked over the captives. Angry at missing the carousal, the man called Keyger kicked Friday, whose eyelids did not budge and whose body did not quiver, and then, more gingerly, kicked Carse and swore at him—but he turned somewhat hastily when the mild gray eyes slowly opened and stared up ...

— Hawk Carse • Anthony Gilmore

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