Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Budge \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.

Budge \Budge\, a. [See {Budge}, v.]
   Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] --South.

Budge \Budge\, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga
   a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc,
   Gael. bolg. Cf. {Budge}, n.]
   A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool
   on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of
   scholastic habits.

Budge \Budge\, a.
   1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. ``Budge gowns.''
      --Milton.

   2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

            Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. --Milton.

   {Budge bachelor}, one of a company of men clothed in long
      gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord
      mayor of London in his inaugural procession.

   {Budge barrel} (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only
      one head, the other end being closed by a piece of
      leather, which is drawn together with strings like a
      purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to
      the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

Source : WordNet®

Budge
     n : 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) [syn: {Don
         Budge}, {John Donald Budge}]