Chapter Brutus to Budget of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Buckmaster's Light Infantry The 3rd West India Regiment was so called from Buckmaster, the tailor, who used to issue “Light Infantry uniforms” to the officers of the corps without any authority from the Commander-in-Chief.

Buckra Superior, excellent. That's buckra. A buckra coat is a smart coat; a buckra man, a man of consequence. This word among the West Indians does the service of burra among the Anglo-Indians: as burra saïb (great master, i.e. white man), burra khana (a magnificent spread or dinner).

Buckshish or Baksheesh. A gratuity, pour boire. A term common to India, Persia, and indeed all the East.

Buddha means the Wise One. From the Indian word budh, to know. The title was given to Prince Siddhartha, generally called Saky'a-muni, the founder of Buddhism. His wife's name was Gopa.

Buddhism A system of religion established in India in the third century. The general outline of the system is that the world is a transient reflex of deity; that the soul is a “vital spark” of deity; and that after death it will be bound to matter again till its “wearer” has, by divine contemplation, so purged and purified it that it is fit to be absorbed into the divine essence.

Buddhist One whose system of religion is Buddhism.

Bude or Gurney Light. The latter is the name of the inventor, and the former the place of his abode. (Goldsworthy Gurney, of Bude, Cornwall.)

Budge is lambskin with the wool dressed outwards, worn on the edge of capes, bachelors' hoods, and so on. Budge Row, Cannon Street, is so-called because it was chiefly occupied by budge-makers.

“O foolishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge-doctors of the stoic fur.”
Milton: Comus, 706, 767.

Budge (To) is the French bouger, to stir.

Budge Bachelors A company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge or lambs' wool, who used to accompany the Lord Mayor of London at his inauguration.

Budget The statement which the Chancellor of the Exchequer lays before the House of Commons every session, respecting the national income and expenditure, taxes and salaries. The word is the old French bougette, a bag, and the present use arose from the custom of bringing to the House the papers pertaining to these matters in a leather bag, and laying them on the table. Hence, to open the budget or bag, i.e. to take the papers from the bag and submit them to the House.
   A budget of news is a bagful of news, a large stock of news.
   Cry Budget. A watchword or shibboleth. Thus Slender says to Shallow-

“We have a nay-word how to know one another. I come to her in white and cry mum; she cries budget: and by that we know one another.'- Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 2.