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Grammar : Verb
Spell : splurj
Phonetic Transcription : splɜrdʒ



Definition of splurge

Origin :
  • 1828, "ostentatious display," American English, a Western (i.e. Kentucky) word, perhaps a blend of splash and surge. The meaning "extravagant indulgence in spending" is first recorded 1928.
  • verb spend lavishly
Example sentences :
  • I could see Schultz think, and revive, and splurge with his bets again.
  • Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London
  • The Caledonias have tried to make quite a splurge this year.
  • Extract from : « Back Home » by Eugene Wood
  • There was no opportunity for him to splurge about from side to side of the pulpit, as some do.
  • Extract from : « Backlog Studies » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • I may make a splurge for another six months, for it is hard to give up.
  • Extract from : « Max Fargus » by Owen Johnson
  • And again, my dear Aurelia, I am afraid you are going to make a splurge.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Peregrine Pickle » by George P. Upton
  • Do not splurge, therefore, unless you are ready to keep up your splurge.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Peregrine Pickle » by George P. Upton
  • There is always a grand cadenza where you must play all alone and "make a splurge."
  • Extract from : « Music-Study in Germany » by Amy Fay
  • Agnes would, as she frankly said, have been glad to make a splurge.
  • Extract from : « The Corner House Girls » by Grace Brooks Hill
  • It was his father who made the collection in the days of the first great American splurge.
  • Extract from : « The High Heart » by Basil King
  • And we sed the same after the splurge uv the 22d uv February last.
  • Extract from : « Swingin Round the Cirkle. » by Petroleum V. Nasby

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