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budge up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, informal, intransitive) To move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.
    • ‘Budge up, yeh great lump,’ said the stranger. 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
budging up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
budged up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
budged up Tense=Past lexicographic
budges up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

scoot up · thrutch up · scoot over · move over