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Scottish footballers once with demand for unrestrained expenditure
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splurge
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Word definitions for splurge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make an ostentatious display, to put on a splurge" (in the older sense of the noun), by 1843, from splurge (n.). Thornton's "American Glossary" has an 1848 citation defining splurge (v.) as "to expatiate at large, to appeal to broad and general principles." ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splurge \Splurge\, v. i. To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An extravagant or ostentatious display. (from 1828) 2 An extravagant indulgence; a spending spree. (from 1928) vb. 1 To gush, to flow or move in a rush. 2 (cx colloquial English) To spend lavishly or extravagantly, ''especially'' money. (from 1911)
Usage examples of splurge.
He stumbled as he barged into a large room and was immediately assaulted with a suffocating splurge of smell, screamy noises, and splashy lights.
The opposite end of the arm is linked to a pump rod consisting of several tree-trunks squared off and bound together with iron bands, plunging into the earth and pulling on giant sucking and splurging equipment too deep down for Daniel to see.
Instantly, then, shouts of laughter--torchlight scattering the shadows amid gloom--green cypresses --fire--color splurging on the bosom of the water--babel of hundreds of voices as the gay Antiochenes swarmed out from behind the trees--and a cheer, as the girls by the altar threw their garments off and scampered naked along the river-bank toward a bridge that joined the temple island to the sloping lawns, where the crowd ran to await them.
In any case, I splurged and had it rutched round the hem, with ribbons to set off the rutchings.
Feeling so close to success, not to mention restricted by her sleeping son, who was nowhere near as light as he used to be, she splurged and allowed the call to be automatically placed.
It was one of the few things he had splurged on and purchased for himself with his meager paycheck.
Further pleased with the progress on the table, the old woman splurged on a meat pie for supper, drawing on the coppers that Borin had awarded her for the loss of her eggs.
A harem girl who had splurged her allowance could not have achieved a more colorful effect.
She took pleasure in splurging on an exquisite hand-knit sweater, a pair of imported shoes, a pieqce of original art.
I had this sweet young thing over for dinner, and I splurged and bought a gorgeous beef Wellington at Ottomanelli's, and I bring it to the table just in time for her to tell me she doesn't eat red meat.
Aware that it might be the last meal he would enjoy for some time that he would not have to prepare himself, he splurged on a ragout made with agouti, yuca, assorted vegetables, and blanched Brazil nuts.
I quoted to her Dannii Minogue who said that, after break-ups, women often act rebelliously like colouring their hair outrageously, taking sudden trips, or splurging on expensive clothes.
At the sommelier's suggestion, he'd splurged on a demi bottle of dessert wine-Châ.
To boost his spirits, Thomas Curl splurged and got a room at the Grand Bay Hotel.
I, on the other hand, was wearing a soft jade jacket of cashmere lined with silk, which represented a rare splurge on my part, but I could be sure this man would overlook this garment with its crystal buttons and mandarin collar and concentrate instead on my drab raincoat, beige, and not quite pristine at the cuffs.