Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal)An extravagant or ostentatious display.

    Protzen, Protzerei, Angeberei

    an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)

  2. (informal)An extravagant indulgence; a spending spree.

    verschwenderisches Ausgeben, Prassen, Geldverjubeln

    хвастливая демонстра́цияxvastlivaja demonstrácija, выставление напоказvystavlenije napokaz

    any act of immoderate indulgence

Examples

4 sentences

  1. I believe in splurging every once in a while.

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  2. We don't need to splurge.

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  3. He chose to splurge on a luxury car.

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  4. I splurged and bought myself a Nintendo Switch.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
extravagant indulgence:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
extravagant or ostentatious display:
extravagant indulgence:

Origin

Possibly from a blend of splash + surge, originally US. According to the OED, onomatopoeic

Possibly from a blend of splash + surge, originally US. According to the OED, onomatopoeic.

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Forms

plural: splurges
Singularsplurge
Pluralsplurges

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedsplurchasesplurgersplurgy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
splitB2splittingspoilB1spoilagespoiler

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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