Main Entry: ²budge

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): budged; budg·ing

Etymology: Anglo-French bouger, from Vulgar Latin *bullicare, from Latin bullire to boil — more at boil

Date: 1578

intransitive verb 1 : move, shift <the mule wouldn't budge>
2 : to give way : yield <wouldn't budge on the issue>transitive verb : to cause to move or change