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Splurge   /splərdʒ/   Listen
Splurge

noun
1.
An ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.).
2.
Any act of immoderate indulgence.  Synonyms: binge, orgy.  "An emotional binge" , "A splurge of spending"
verb
1.
Indulge oneself.  Synonym: fling.
2.
Be showy or ostentatious.





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"Splurge" Quotes from Famous Books



... mean," cried Joel in a loud, vindictive tone back of Polly, "to work on Phronsie's feelings. You can't make me say I don't want Mamsie to have a wedding splurge, so ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... sudden outburst overwhelmed the inner-guard at Jailpore. The sight of white women being butchered, and of white men with the blood of their own women on their hands, selling their lives as dearly as the God of War would let them in a holocaust of flames, blinded her. It was probably just a splurge of fire and noise and smoke and blood in her memory, with one or two details standing out. The only real sensation that she felt—even when a tall, lean Rajput flung her across his shoulder, ran with her and dropped her down through a square hole into stifling darkness—was a longing for ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy
... now? A cat bereft, Of all my kittens, but one is left. I make no charges, but this I ask,— What made such a splurge in the waste-water cask? You are quite tender-hearted. Oh, not a doubt! But only suppose old Black Pond could speak out. Oh, bother! don't mutter excuses to me: Qui facit per alium facit ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... could make Folly Bay pay big dividends. So could I. But so long as you cover his ground with carriers, every day he operates is a dead loss. I haven't much sympathy for him. He has made a fortune out of that place and those fishermen and spent it making a big splurge in town. Anyway, his wife has all kinds of kale, so we should worry ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... what I call mean," cried Joel in a loud, vindictive tone back of Polly, "to work on Phronsie's feelings. You can't make me say I don't want Mamsie to have a wedding splurge, so there, ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney


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