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  • 11budge up — (informal) To move closer together (eg along a bench) usu so as to make room for others • • • Main Entry: ↑budge * * * ˌbudge ˈup [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they budge up …

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  • 12Budge — (b[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budged} (b[u^]jd); 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… …

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  • 13Budge — Budge, a. [See {Budge}, v.] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 14Budge — 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 …

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  • 15Budge Pountney — Anthony (Budge) Charles Pountney, est né le 13 novembre 1973 à Southampton (Angleterre). C’est un joueur de rugby à XV qui a joué avec l équipe d Écosse, évoluant au poste de troisième ligne (1,83 m et 97 kg). Carrière Il a disputé son premier …

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  • 16budge — budge1 [buj] vt., vi. budged, budging [Fr < OFr bouger, to move < VL * bullicare, to boil < L bullire,BOIL1] 1. to move even a little [unable to budge the boulder] 2. to yield or cause to yield budge2 [buj] …

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  • 17Budge — Budge, Ludwig Julius, Mediziner, geb. ll. Sept. 1811 in Wetzlar, gest. 14. Juli 1888 in Greifswald, studierte seit 1828 in Marburg, Würzburg und Berlin und lebte als Arzt in Wetzlar und Altenkirchen bei Koblenz, habilitierte sich 1842 in Bonn,… …

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  • 18Budge Wilson — ist eine kanadische Schriftstellerin. Leben Sie wurde in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kanada geboren und ist dort aufgewachsen. Ihr Studium der Philosophie und Psychologie absolvierte sie an der Dalhousie University und verfolgte dann ein… …

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  • 19Budge — Budge, Donald (1915 2000) a US tennis player who in 1938 became the first person to win the Wimbledon, US, Australian, and French ↑championships in one year …

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  • 20budge — (v.) 1580s, from M.Fr. bougier to move, stir (Mod.Fr. bouger), from V.L. *bullicare to bubble, boil (hence, to be in motion ), from L. bullire to boil (see BOIL (Cf. boil) (v.)). Related: Budged; budging …

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