Badge vs Budge - What's the difference?
badge | budge |
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)
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
In transitive terms the difference between badge and budge
is that badge is to enter a restricted area by showing one's badge while budge is to move.As an adjective budge is
brisk; stirring; jocund.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
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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.