Trot vs Budge - What's the difference?

Trot is a related term of budge.

As nouns the difference between trot and budge

is that trot is trotskyist while budge is a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

As a verb budge is

to move.

As an adjective budge is

(obsolete) brisk; stirring; jocund or budge can be (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.

trot

English

(wikipedia trot)

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“ Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.

(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

* 2000 , Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility , page 14,

Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.

* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier, page 154,

The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .

* 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show , page 65,

To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.

A gait of a person faster than a walk.

A toddler.

* 1855 , '', 1869, ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'', Volume V: ''The Newcomes, Volume I , page 123,

but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

(obsolete) A young animal.

(dance) A moderately rapid dance.

(mildly disparaging)

(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

A run of luck or fortune.

He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.

* 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing , page 34,

It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.

* 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition, page 21,

Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.

Synonyms

* (gait of an animal between walk and canter) * (ugly old woman) See * (gait of a person faster than a walk) jog

Derived terms

* foxtrot * on the trot * trotter * turkey trot

Verb

(trott)

To walk rapidly.

(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Derived terms

* hot to trot

Synonyms

* (to walk rapidly) jog, pace ** See also ,

References

Anagrams

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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)