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Word entry · 5 letters

budge

Best crossword clue

"Move a little"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /bʌd͡ʒ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bdeguStarts with BEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2U3D4G5E

Definitions

  1. move very slightly

Word 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.

Used in a sentence

  • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
  • Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.
  • […]although his ſouldiers were much moved and offended to ſee their fellowes put to the worſt, he could not be induced to bouge from his place[…]

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