Badged vs Budged - What's the difference?
badged | budged |
(badge)
A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
* Prescott
A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
* {{quote-book, year=158? or 159?, author=, title=Titus Andronicus, section=Act I, Scene 2
, passage=Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge .}}
A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
(nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
(heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
To mark or distinguish with a badge.
To show a badge to.
To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
* (rfdate)
* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , page 146:
* 2004 , Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History , page 135:
* 2006 , David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker's challenge 3 (page 338)
(budge)
To move.
* Shakespeare
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
To move.
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
* Milton
(obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
* Milton
As verbs the difference between badged and budged
is that badged is past tense of badge while budged is past tense of budge.badged
English
Verb
(head)badge
English
Noun
(en noun)- the badge''' of a society; the '''badge of a policeman
- Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges .
- He has got his badge , and piked: He was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
Derived terms
* badge bunny * badgerVerb
(badg)- ''The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.
- He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
- And Patterson didn't hear that Jack Egger, the studio's director of security, said he'd seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging, [...]
- Our regional commissioner, his assistant commissioner and our district director, along with their wives, were hoofing it to the rotunda. Apparently they didn't try and badge their way through.
- Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.
References
* *Anagrams
* ----budged
English
Verb
(head)budge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bouger.Alternative forms
* budg (obsolete)Verb
(budg)- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
- I'll not budge an inch, boy.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge , throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
- The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
Derived terms
* budge up * budgerSynonyms
* shiftEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge -gowns from off their backs.
Adjective
(-)- Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
