budge
verbenomadjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//bʌd͡ʒ//
To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
verbe
- 1
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.
- 2
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
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.
Étymologie
Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.
nom
- 1
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.
Étymologie
From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
adjectif
- 1
obsolèteaustere 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.
nom
- 1
obsolèteAlcoholic drink.
Étymologie
Perhaps related to booze.
Formes
- passé
- budged
- participe passé
- budged
- participe présent
- budging
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- budges
budge · To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
Budge · A surname.budget · The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular…buff · Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.