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Splurge

noun

An ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.).

Any act of immoderate indulgence. Synonyms: binge, orgy. "An emotional binge" , "A splurge of spending"

verb

Indulge oneself. Synonym: fling.

Be showy or ostentatious.

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"Splurge" Quotes from Famous Books

... that hole's too deep for Lettie to reach clear in, there might be somethin' she's missed. I dunno'. But niver moind. I took me vacation, went sailin' out with Dever fur a rale splurge to Kansas City. Across the Neosho Dever turns the stage aside, U. S. mail and all, and lands me siven miles up the river and ferries me on this side again. Dever can keep the stillest of any livin' stage-driver whose business is to drive ...

— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter

... winced. She had hit the exact reason. Having a great deal of money, he wanted more—enough to make the grandest kind of splurge in a puddle where splurge was everything. "Rather, because you are too intelligent," drawled he. "I want somebody who'd fit into my melting moods, not a woman who'd make me ashamed by seeming to sit in ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

... that young man," declared Killigrew emphatically. "He's the real article. American to the backbone; a millionaire who doesn't splurge. Well," sighing regretfully, "he was born to it, and I had to dig for mine. But I can't get it through my head why he wants to excavate mummies when he could dig up ...

— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath

... Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord— Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... blameless order, she moved one of the candlesticks the width of a needle. The table was now garnished to the last resource of the Golden Pomegranate: the napery was snow, the glassware and the cutlery shone with a frosty glitter, and the great bowl of crimson roses afforded the exact splurge of vainglorious color and glow she had designed. Accordingly, being now at leisure, Nelchen now came toward Monsieur Quillan, lifting her lips to his precisely as a ...

— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell

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