different between hurry vs budge

English

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”) (compare Latin curr? (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.

Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

1. Rushed action.
2. Urgency.

3. (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Derived terms

• in a hurry

Translations

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

   • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
6. (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
   • 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:

     Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush

Translations

See also

• haste
• hurry up
• di di mau

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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.

4. (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!

5. 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)

1. (obsolete) Brisk; stirring; jocund.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English bouge from Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.

Noun

budge (uncountable)

1. 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.

Adjective

budge (not comparable)

1. (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