Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to leave; thus budged, budging.

1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: The quire coues are budgd to the bowsing ken, / As Romely as a ball [...] Out budgd the Coue of the Ken, / With a ben filtch in his quarr’me.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: To budge [...] to stir, or move, as, Why don’t you budge? or, The Cull won’t budge; us’d to a plunder’d Passenger, when he is loth to be dragg’d away, in order to be ty’d down in a Ditch, or to be driven into the Woods to be gagg’d and bound.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1790		J. Freeth ‘A Strolling Ballad Singer’s Ramble to London’ Political Songster 6: We left the Tar to pay the shot, / Then budg’d away to Fenny.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		J. Burrowes Life in St George’s Fields 13: Dick was now obliged to give his pal the wink to prepare for budging.
1830		Lytton Paul Clifford I 74: Oh, you viper, budge and begone!
1848		Boston Blade 10 June n.p.: We took the hint and budged.
c.1850		F.M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) 75: Go into the kitchen – budge!
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1880		W. Hooe Sharping London 34: budge, to move away.
1883		R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 39: We’ll have to budge, mates.

2. (UK und.) vtr., to convey, to take.

1639

J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 191: Cove. But sto Mort: what if I should bee Cloyed in the milling of Cacklers, Quacklers, or Duds, or nipping a Bung, and so be cloyed, & budged to the Naskin.

3. (UK Und.) to travel, to move.

1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 191: Mort. I will bing to the Coves and the Morts, and whid to them for Lower, that thou maist budge out of the Naskin: and then budge into the Rum-vile.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 18: To Fleet-street then away we budg’d.