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Added 10 October 2026

budge

/bʌd͡ʒ/ noun

Latin root: bullīre Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about budge at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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).

verb

Move very slightly.
He shifted in his seat

Origin

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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