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hotfoot
English
Etymology
From Middle English hot-fot, hot fot, equivalent to hot +? foot.
Noun
hotfoot (plural hotfoots)
- (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.
Adjective
hotfoot
- Moving with haste or zeal.
- 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)
- Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.
- 1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems (page 137)
Adverb
hotfoot
- (Britain) hastily; without delay.
Translations
Verb
hotfoot (third-person singular simple present hotfoots, present participle hotfooting, simple past and past participle hotfooted)
- (transitive) To run (a distance).
- 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
- He hotfooted the four-and-a-half blocks across town to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and checked out the books Patterson had mentioned—and everything else about China he could quickly think of.
- 2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign (page 55)
- The Ford was shot up heavily, so Larkin hotfooted the last mile to Ewa. Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.
- 2007, R.C. Harvey, Meanwhile...
Derived terms
- hotfoot it
- hotfoot spell
Translations
Anagrams
- foothot
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budge
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French bougier, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullic?re (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bull?re (“to boil; seethe; roil”).
Alternative forms
- budg (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b?d?/
Verb
budge (third-person singular simple present budges, present participle budging, simple past and past participle budged)
- (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
- 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.
- (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.
- 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.
- (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
- Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!
- To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- shift
Derived terms
- budge up
- budger
- budge an inch
Usage notes
In senses 1-3, most often used in negative senses (won't budge; refused to budge, but not usually Sure, I'll budge or Will he budge?); but see budge up.
Translations
Adjective
budge (comparative more budge, superlative most budge)
- (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Middle English bouge from Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
Noun
budge (uncountable)
- A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
- 1649, John Milton, Observations
- They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.
- 1649, John Milton, Observations
Adjective
budge (not comparable)
- (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
Derived terms
- budge bachelor
- budge barrel
References
- budge at OneLook Dictionary Search
- budge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- debug
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