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adj
austere or stiff, like scholastics
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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name
A surname.
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noun
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Alcoholic drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang, uncountable
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verb
To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To move; to shift from a fixed position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Western
Qualifier: Upper Midwestern US; Indiana; Upper Midwestern US; Indiana
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verb
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
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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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Don Budge, John Donald Budge
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Broader terms: tennis player
verb
move very slightly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stir, shift, agitate
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Broader terms: move
History
From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
English (mainly Anglo-Norman) surname, from Norman bouoche (“mouth”).
Perhaps related to booze.
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.
Across languages
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
