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Bulge vs Budge - What's the difference?

bulge | budge |

In intransitive terms the difference between bulge and budge

is that bulge is to bilge, as a ship; to founder while budge is to move.

As an adjective budge is

brisk; stirring; jocund.

bulge

English

(wikipedia bulge)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
    • a bulge in a wall
    a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet
  • The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.

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    Verb

    (bulg)
  • To stick out from (a surface).
    • The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
    He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
  • To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  • * Broome
    • And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

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    budge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bouger.

    Alternative forms

    * budg (obsolete)

    Verb

    (budg)
  • To move.
    • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll not budge an inch, boy.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " 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.
  • To move.
    • I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
  • To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
    • The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
  • To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
    • Derived terms
    * budge up * budger
    Synonyms
    * shift

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
    • (South)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
  • * Milton
    • They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge -gowns from off their backs.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
  • * Milton
    • Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
    Derived terms
    * budge bachelor * budge barrel (Webster 1913)

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