budge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: budge	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for budge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Budge n 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) Synonym(s): Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budge v move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budge \Budge\, a. 1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. [bd]Budge gowns.[b8] --Milton. 2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. --Milton. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budge \Budge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budged}; 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. I'll not budge an inch, boy. --Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budge \Budge\, a. [See {Budge}, v.] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.