budge

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
  2. verb move very slightly

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.

In classic literature

Synonyms

Don Budge, John Donald Budge

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