Crossword clues for orgy
orgy
- Disabled operatic hero losing head in wild party
- Debauchery during junior gymnastics
- Indulgent spree
- Unrestrained indulgence
- Unrestrained party
- Boisterous party
- Sex party
- Rowdy shindig
- Frenzied revelry
- Debauched party
- Anything-goes party
- "Animal House" party
- Wild self-indulgent party
- Wild overindulgence
- Wild indulgence
- Wild gathering
- Wild display
- Uncontrolled revelry
- Unbridled revelry
- Unbridled carousing
- Unbridled action
- Swinging good time?
- Sexy party
- Sexual free-for-all
- Satyric party
- Satyric celebration
- Satyr's celebration
- Rowdy revel
- Roman blast
- Raucous caucus?
- Rampant revelry
- Period of riotous indulgence
- Party gone wild
- Out-of-control revelry
- Out-of-control indulgence
- Mass revelry
- Lovefest, literally
- Love fest?
- Group revelry
- Group making connections
- Group indulgence
- Group debauchery
- Get-together you probably shouldn't post photos of on Facebook
- Function with no limits?
- Frenzied indulgence
- Excessive revelry
- Drunken revel
- Crazy party
- Bout of bacchanalia
- Bacchus-inspired event
- Bacchanalian blowout
- "Eyes Wide Shut" event
- Overindulgence
- Bout of debauchery
- Bacchanalian event
- Bacchanalian blast
- Wild party
- Unbridled indulgence
- Wild romp
- Wild revelry
- Wild time
- Occasion of immoderation
- Spree (m)
- Binge
- Unrestrained revelry
- Wild goings-on
- Excessive indulgence
- Liberal party?
- Bacchanalian revelry
- Immoderate indulgence
- Unlikely event for puritans
- Period of indulgence
- Occasion of overindulgence
- Saturnalian celebration
- Bacchanalian bash
- Rowdy revelry
- Any act of immoderate indulgence
- Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
- A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- Hardly an exercise in restraint
- Bacchanal's bash
- Saturnalias
- Ancient Greek ceremonial rite
- Drunken revelry
- Carousal
- Specialty of Dionysus
- Kind of party
- Bash Bacchus would enjoy
- Caligula specialty
- Where to hear "Evoe!"
- Party in Gomorrah
- Dionysus specialty
- Bacchic party
- Revelry
- Roué's delight
- Very intimate get-together
- Wild party first four in 14 initially arranged
- Licentious revelry
- Regularly do drugs before end of very wild party
- Binge over, guy must purge insides
- Bess's lover misses the first wild celebration
- Bess's partner's topless romp
- Bess's partner heading off for wild celebration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; sing. Orgies. [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. ?; akin to ? work. See Organ, and Work.]
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A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form.
Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held.
--Drayton. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse.
--B. Jonson.
--Tennyson.A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group.
Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; pl. Orgies. A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, orgies (plural) "secret rites in the worship of certain Greek and Roman gods," especially Dionysus, from Middle French orgies (c.1500, from Latin orgia), and directly from Greek orgia (plural) "secret rites," especially those of Bacchus, from PIE root *werg- "to do" (see organ). The singular, orgy, was first used in English 1660s for the extended sense of "any licentious revelry." OED says of the ancient rites that they were "celebrated with extravagant dancing, singing, drinking, etc.," which gives "etc." quite a workout.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A revel involving indiscriminate group sexual activity. 2 Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
WordNet
n. any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: binge, splurge]
secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
Wikipedia
Orgy is an American rock band formed in 1994, from Los Angeles, California. Orgy described their industrial rock music as "death pop". The band is best known for their cover version of the New Order song " Blue Monday".
In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests freely engage in open and unrestrained sexual activity or group sex.
Swingers' parties do not always conform to this designation because at many swinger parties the sexual partners may all know each other or at least have some commonality among economic class, educational attainment or other shared attributes. Some swingers contend that an orgy, as opposed to a sex party, requires some anonymity of sexual partners in complete sexual abandon. Other kinds of "sex party" may fare less well with this labeling.
Participation in an "orgy" is a common sexual fantasy and group sex targeting such consumers is a subgenre in pornographic films.
The term is also used metaphorically in expressions, such as an "orgy of colour" or an "orgy of destruction" to indicate excess, overabundance. The term "orgiastic" does not generally connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots and this metaphorical usage.
Usage examples of "orgy".
The smells of allspice and ginger and coriander and turmeric and apples and mangoes and raisins and lemons and peaches and cranberries and apricots and onions mingle together in an orgy of fragrance, and leave my apartment through the window, reaching for the sky.
I fetched Astoria out of the orgy the last time you arrived and she nearly tore my balls off!
The respectable Cressida Mandeville, dead in a lewd costume after a lewd display at a lewd orgy.
Tiverton had agreed that there was absolutely no chance that this Miss Mandeville led a secret life, attending orgies in outrageous costumes.
Not in wanton orgy and obscenity, as the Middle Ages misconceived his desires, but in praise and in the deep, dark joy that issues forth from Blackness.
As the circle narrowed, and as we caught occasional glimpses of a terrified kangaroo, the cries and antics of Musqueeto and the other natives to the right and left, who were in sight, became more violent and furious, and the black naked savages, rattling their spears and brandishing their waddies, and screaming and dancing about in the most raging state of excitement, resembled a band of demons engaged in some infernal orgies.
Mexico no longer had the flow of petrodollars to meet the interest payments, the orgy of greed ended.
Having heard previously sundry menaces, which had been made by these preposterous and incarnadine individuals of hell, now on trial in prospect of condign punishment, fulminated against the longer continuance of my corporeal salubrity, for no better reason than that I reprobated their criminal orgies, and not wishing my reflections to be disturbed, I hurried my steps with a gradual accelerated motion.
The teenage orgies, boys and girls screwing, fighting and beer guzzling with a medicine kit of drugs from the various pharmacies.
It had only been nine in the morning but the stereo was on, both TVs, and it sounded like an orgy was going on in the basement playroom.
He stood listening for a moment and heard the distant murmur of the orgy.
In a moment all four stood in the white, listening to the distant orgy.
When he had done so, again with the females aligned behind him, he stood in a much larger room, larger even than the new orgy room of Joy Hall, with white walls, the ubiquitous white-lit ceiling, though at least twelve feet high, and firm grey floor.
Usherdown and the Saint through four separate formality barriers manned by Qabati militia in facsimiles of British battle dress but still capped with the square rope-bound cowls of their forefathers, who had every air of being set for an orgy of red tape at the expense of any unprivileged passengers.
Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.