Budge
[bʌdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
Typist: Nola--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.
(v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
(n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
(a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
(a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
Typed by Elvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Stir, move, go.
Checker: Nellie
Definition
n. lambskin fur.—adj. pompous: stiff.
v.i. and v.t. to move or stir.—n. Budg′er one who stirs.
Edited by Lilian
Examples
- You don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office during that time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't budge till I get the word from Mick. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dr. Wallis Budge writes of them as conquerors from the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ye have sufficient ruffians of your own, said De Bracy; not one of mine shall budge on such an errand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- BUDGE, _Catalogue, Egyptian Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The weight of old Sabor was immense, and when she braced her huge paws nothing less than Tantor, the elephant, himself, could have budged her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has a secretary who is devoted to his interests, and never budges from the study all day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Constantine