Dictionary entry

Budge

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.