budge


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
budge/bʌʤ/
verb
  • 1 [usu. with neg.] make or cause to make the slightest movement.

    ■ (budge up or over) informal make room for another person by moving.

  • 2 change or cause to change an opinion.
– origin C16: from Fr. bouger ‘to stir’, based on L. bullire ‘to boil’.
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