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Definition of Budged
1. budge [v] - See also: budge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Budged
Literary usage of Budged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"For all the Rome coves are budged a beake. And the quire (queer) coves tippe the
loure. —£. Rowlands, 161o. That " Rome coves " means gypsies here, ..."
2. The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré, George Bruce Halsted (1907)
"At the instant ft the object B has come in contact with my second finger: as I
have not budged, this second finger has remained at M; therefore the object B ..."
3. Archivum Rákóczianum: II. Rḱóczi Ferencz levéltára, belés küföldi by Kálmán Thaly, Magyar Történelmi Társulat (1872)
"... they are now ..budged to proceed with all the Precaution imaginable. And if
they found themselves abandoned by the resi of the world, rather than Submit ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"She just looked like the full moon in Zoe's face, and never budged. Zoe, being
also a girl of the day, ... Miss Dover's face reddened, but she never budged. ..."
5. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"Or further, what criterion will enable me to apprehend this Î I mean that, although
I have not budged (which my muscular sense tells me), my first finger ..."
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