The budge Surname
budge Name Meaning and History
- English (mainly Devon and Cornwall): nickname from Norman French buge ‘mouth’ (Late Latin bucca), applied either to someone with a large or misshapen mouth or to someone who made excessive use of his mouth, i.e. a garrulous, indiscreet, or gluttonous person. The word is also recorded in Middle English in the sense ‘victuals supplied for retainers on a military campaign’, and the surname may therefore also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a medieval quartermaster.
- Scottish (Caithness and Orkney): unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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