different between plug vs budge

English

Etymology

1606; from Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi. Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic: compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?g, IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

plug (plural plugs)

1. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
   1. (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
2. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

   Synonyms: bung, dowel, stopper, stopple

3. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

4. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
5. (US, slang) A worthless horse.

   Synonyms: (racing) bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag

6. (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
7. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
8. (slang) A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.

9. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.

10. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.

11. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
12. (jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
13. (slang) A drug dealer.
    • 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (page 32)

      He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]

14. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ???? (pa.lat)
• ? Japanese: ??? (puragu)

Translations

Verb

plug (third-person singular simple present plugs, present participle plugging, simple past and past participle plugged)

1. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

2. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
3. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.

4. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
   • 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head

     I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...

5. (slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.

Synonyms

• (persist): keep up, soldier on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
• (shoot a bullet): bust a cap, pop, ventilate
• (have sex with): drill, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gulp

Albanian

Alternative forms

• pllug

Etymology

From a South Slavic language language, from Proto-Slavic *plug? (“plough”), further derived from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz (“plough”), *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare Serbo-Croatian ????, Bulgarian ???? (plug), and English plough. Replaced parmendë in most dialects, which came to mean “wooden plough”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu?/

Noun

plug m (indefinite plural plugje, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugjet)

1. steel plough
2. an instance of tilling

Declension

Synonyms

• parmendë

Derived terms

• plugoj, plugim

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• plugu

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Compare also Daco-Romanian plug.

Noun

plug n (plural pluguri)

1. plough

   Synonyms: aratru, aletrã, dãmãljiugu, paramendã

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From early modern plugge, from Middle Dutch *plugge, from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz. Despite being attested only very late, it has certain cognates in several other Germanic languages, including Middle Low German plugge, Middle High German plugge, Swedish plugg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?x/
• Hyphenation: plug
• Rhymes: -?x

Noun

plug m (plural pluggen, diminutive plugje n)

1. wall plug (used to hold nails and screws)

Derived terms

• oorplug

French

Etymology

From English plug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plœ?/

Noun

plug m (plural plugs)

1. butt-plug

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Noun

plug n (plural plugur, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugurle)

1. plough

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plu?]

Noun

plug n (plural pluguri)

1. plough

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plû?/

Noun

pl?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. plough

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plug?, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plú?k/, /plúk/

Noun

pl?g or pl?g m inan

1. plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)

Inflection

Further reading

• “plug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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.

   (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)

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