budge

Other forms of budge

plural

budges·

past tense

budged·

present participle

budging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about budge

What does budge mean?

budge means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in budge?

budge has 1 syllable: budge. In IPA it is /ˈbʌdʒ/.

What is another word for budge?

Close synonyms include Don Budge, John Donald Budge, stir, shift, agitate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is budge a common word?

budge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.