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) [syn: Don Budge, John Donald Budge] v : move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, agitate]

English

Etymology

From bouger

Verb

1. To move.

   I've been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won't budge an inch.

2. To yield in one's opinions or beliefs.

Translations

• Finnish: hievahtaa, liikahtaa
• Polish: poruszyć się, drgnąć

Derived terms

• budge up
• budger
• budging
• : The act of trying to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field

Budge is a verb, meaning to move.

Budge can also refer to:

• Budge of court, free food and drink in a royal court
• Budgebudge, a city in the state of West Bengal, India
• Budge Hall, a building at Brigham Young University

People:

• Bill Budge, computer game programmer and designer
  • BudgeCo, a company founded by Bill Budge
• E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist
• Edward Budge, English theologian and geologist
• Hamer H. Budge, American legislator and judge
• Budge Crawley, Canadian film producer

In sports:

• Don Budge, American tennis champion
• Grahame Budge, former Scotland rugby player
• Budge Patty, American tennis player
• Budge Pountney, former rugby player and director
• Budge Rogers, former England rugby player

See also:

• BUDG

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