budged

US[buhjd]/bʌdʒd/1 syllable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“budged” is listed under Budge.

Budge (bŭj), intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Budged (bŭjd); present participle & verbal noun Budging.]

Origin: F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, intransitive verb

To move off; to stir; to walk away.

I'll not budge an inch, boy.— William Shakespeare
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they.— William Shakespeare

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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