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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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... this history is a tangle. Many younger U.S. hackers pronounce the word as /klooj/ but spell it, incorrectly for its meaning and pronunciation, as 'kludge'. (Phonetically, consider huge, refuge, centrifuge, and deluge as opposed to sludge, judge, budge, and fudge. Whatever its failings in other areas, English spelling is perfectly consistent about this distinction.) British hackers mostly learned /kluhj/ orally, use it in a restricted negative sense and are at least consistent. ...

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... what she did: told me she wished she'd married Jerry, I was so cruel. Miss J. talked to her like a Dutch uncle. Can't have the child treated too harshly for all the Governor-Generals Canada ever had, and told her so. We all got pretty hot, but nothing would budge M. till Elise happened to confide in her that I was a man in a thousand. This for some reason struck her forcibly and she acted like an angel. Women are certainly strange. Nothing more done on ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... rushed to the edge of a precipice. He was just about to leap over the edge when his Driver caught hold of his tail and did his best to pull him back: but pull as he might he couldn't get the Ass to budge from the brink. At last he gave up, crying, "All right, then, get to the bottom your own way; but it's the way to sudden death, as you'll find out ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... people. A slight hint for such an origin may be gleaned from the finding by Frobenius of the handle of an antique cup, of which he testifies that the carved figure thereon resembles very much the effigy of the Ethiopian or Nubian god Bes,[28] and which, according to Budge,[29] is held to ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... the foot of the cliff, one eye on his prey, licking his damaged paw, and swearing beneath his breath. And it was clear he did not mean to budge. ...

— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant

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