Synonyms for splurge
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : splurj |
| Phonetic Transcription : splÉœrdÊ’ |
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for splurge
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