budge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to move very slightly

   The crate wouldn't budge regardless of the efforts they made.

2. 2
   verb

   To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To move; to shift from a fixed position.

   I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.

4. 4
   verb

   To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.

Simplified etymology

Budge entered English in the late 16th century through French bouger “to stir,” from Latin bullire “boil, bubble.”

Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.

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