splurgen.
/spləːdʒ/, U.S. /splərdʒ/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. An ostentatious display or effort. Also in to cut a splurge, to make an ostentatious display.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display
pompc1330
vaunterya1492
pomping pridec1503
braga1513
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
plume1580
affecting1584
top and topgallant1593
ruffle1609
parado1621
riota1649
flutter1667
show1713
sprunk1746
to make a splash1804
show-off1811
paraffle1816
shine1819
splurge1828
gaud1831
spludge1831
poppy-show1860
razzle1885
razzmatazz1917
foofaraw1933
showbiz1970
glitz1977
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1828 ‘F. Herbert’ Talisman for 1829 ii. 107 ‘What a splurge’ (said a Kentucky representative, in one of the favorite and most expressive words of Western invention)—‘what a splurge she makes’.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 112 Cut a splurge,..to make a show or display in dress.
1864 Boston (Mass.) Commonw. 3 June Manton Marble..has just made a splurge in a letter addressed to the President.
1886 C. D. Warner My Summer in Garden (ed. 4) 152 They make a great deal of ostentatious splurge; and many of them come to no result at last.
1895 Punch 1 June 258/2 My anti-gambling old Gaffer 'as spiled the whole splurge.
1897 Chicago Tribune 19 Sept. 37/1 Two shrewd young Hoosiers..came to Chicago in 1891 and cut a big splurge in monetary and real estate circles.
1977 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 4/3 Presidential inauguration ceremonies..will go on for the rest of the week in a $3 million (about £1,700,000) splurge of dances, parties and celebrations.
b. A sudden extravagant indulgence, esp. in spending.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > instance of
sumptuosities1587
profuseness1656
squander1709
splurge1928
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > sudden indulgence in
splurge1928
1928 Publishers' Weekly 16 June 2429 The Sales Force hadn't the courage to urge big splurges.
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xxx. 342 He was not to be the slave of other people's animal appetites, their sex splurges.
1937 M. Hillis Orchids on your Budget iv. 74 For years she has been putting something aside—not for a rainy day, but for a splurge.
1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers 193 A chicken salad which she looked at ravenously but barely touched, as if she knew too well the penalties of such a splurge.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 27 Mar. 12/6 The Air Transport Association predicts a 6 per cent increase in air travel this year. ‘We don't see any tremendous splurge,’ a spokesman said.
c. spec. in Journalism, a large or showy advertisement, feature, etc.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > ostentatious or extravagant advertising
puff1732
boom1879
splurge1960
1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words 31 A full-page advertisement..is usually called either a splash or, if showy, a splurge.
1971 ‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers x. 109 We've got..quite a splurge about the rose industry generally.
2. A heavy splash or downpour.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
floodc1275
spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
squata1640
downpouring1669
deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. xvii. 270 The rain came down..in brief but uncomfortable ‘splurges’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
splurgev.
/spləːdʒ/, U.S. /splərdʒ/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. intransitive. To make an ostentatious display; to show off.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xv. 111 Cousin Pete was thar splurgin about in the biggest, and with his dandy-cut trowsers and big whiskers.
1888 C. D. Warner Their Pilgrimage iv. 114 People who..buy or build expensive villas, splurge out for a year or two, then fail.., and disappear.
b. To spend money extravagantly. Frequently const. on. Also transitive.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend money wastefully or extravagantly [verb (intransitive)]
to lay on load?1562
lavish1567
to bring one's noble to ninepence1568
to lay it ona1593
overspend1857
plunge1876
splash1934
splurge1934
1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1947 Chicago Sun 28 Jan. 17/2 When I got around to furnishing my office, I thought I'd splurge on a good 18th Century English armchair.
1961 Observer 19 Mar. 3/3 The cigarette manufacturers splurged [on advertising], in spite of or because of cancer fears.
1975 High Times Dec. 130/1 If you really get into omelettes, you should splurge and procure a good copper or stainless steel omelette pan.
1977 Spare Rib June 6 So what does Bhagwan offer which is so compelling that feminists will splurge this sort of money?
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. v. 229 You don't have to splurge on Maxim's now—we can go somewhere simple.
2. To splash heavily. (Cf. splodge v. 1.)
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > heavily
splash1755
splash1837
splurge1887
sloosh1914
1887 T. Stevens Around World on Bicycle i. viii. 189 I don my gossamers as soon as the rain slacks up a little, and splurge ahead through the mud.
Derivatives
ˈsplurging adj.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
1884 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto (ed. 6) 90 The..American heiress and her friend—two of my splurging young countrywomen.
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