budge

Meanings

Verb

• To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
• To move; to shift from a fixed position.
• To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
• To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
• To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

Noun

• A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

Adjective

• austere or stiff, like scholastics

Related

Similar words

• shift

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French bougier, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre, from Latin bullīre.
• From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga. bulge.