Hump vs Budge - What's the difference?
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A mound of earth.
A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
A speed hump.
(rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
To bend something into a hump.
(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
(slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
(intransitive) To dry-hump.
(slang) To have sex with.
(slang) To have sex.
To move.
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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.
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(obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
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In transitive terms the difference between hump and budge
is that hump is to bend something into a hump while budge is to move.As a proper noun Hump
is the Himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.As an adjective budge is
brisk; stirring; jocund.hump
English
Noun
(wikipedia hump) (en noun)- get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
- That guy is such a hump !
Synonyms
* (abnormal deformity of the spine) gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchbackSee also
* over the hump * hump day * speed humpVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* dry-humpbudge
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.