noun
Meaning 1
An extravagant or ostentatious display.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
splurge
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /splɜːd͡ʒ/
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General-American: /splɝd͡ʒ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
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noun
Meaning 2
An extravagant indulgence; a spending spree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To (cause to) gush; to flow or move in a rush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, informal
Examples
- The tomato sauce was splurged all over the chips.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To spend lavishly or extravagantly, especially money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, informal
Examples
- They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: splash out
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To produce an extravagant or ostentatious display.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
any act of immoderate indulgence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an orgy of shopping
- an emotional binge
- a splurge of spending
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: orgy, binge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring
noun
Meaning 7
an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ostentation, fanfare, flash
verb
Meaning 8
be showy or ostentatious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
verb
Meaning 9
indulge oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I splurged on a new TV
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consume, squander, waste, ware
History
Etymology
Possibly from a blend of splash + surge, originally US. According to the OED, onomatopoeic.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: фукане (fukane) — extravagant or ostentatious display
- Bulgarian: перчене (perčene) — extravagant or ostentatious display
- Finnish: pröystäily — extravagant or ostentatious display
- German: Protzen — extravagant or ostentatious display
- German: Protzerei — extravagant or ostentatious display
- German: Angeberei — extravagant or ostentatious display
- German: Protz — extravagant or ostentatious display
- Czech: utrácení — extravagant indulgence
- Czech: rozhazování — extravagant indulgence
- Finnish: tuhlailu — extravagant indulgence
- Finnish: törsäily — extravagant indulgence
- Finnish: tuhlaus — extravagant indulgence
- Finnish: törsäys — extravagant indulgence
- German: verschwenderisches Ausgeben — extravagant indulgence
- German: Prassen — extravagant indulgence
- German: Geldverjubeln — extravagant indulgence
- German: Verschwendung — extravagant indulgence
- Russian: хвастливая демонстра́ция (xvastlivaja demonstrácija) — extravagant indulgence
- Russian: выставление напоказ (vystavlenije napokaz) — extravagant indulgence
- Spanish: ostentación — extravagant indulgence
- Spanish: derroche — extravagant indulgence
- Turkish: gösteriş — extravagant indulgence
- Finnish: ryntäillä — to flow or move in rush
- Finnish: roiskia — to flow or move in rush
- Finnish: roiskua — to flow or move in rush
- Finnish: puuskahtaa — to flow or move in rush
- German: ergießen — to flow or move in rush
- Russian: хлынуть (xlynutʹ) — to flow or move in rush
- Spanish: chorrear — to flow or move in rush
- Turkish: dökmek — to flow or move in rush
- Arabic: يبعزق (yebáʕzaʔ) — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Bulgarian: харча безразсъдно (harča bezrazsǎdno) — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Min Nan Chinese: 大出手 (tōa-chhut-chhiú) — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Czech: rozhazovat — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Czech: rozšoupnout se — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Finnish: tuhlata — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Finnish: tuhlailla — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Finnish: törsätä — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- French: claquer — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- French: flamber — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Galician: desbaldir — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- German: prassen — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- German: verprassen — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- German: verschwenden — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Ido: spensegar — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Polish: przepuszczać — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Portuguese: esbanjar — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Russian: транжирить (tranžiritʹ) — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Russian: тра́тить де́ньги (trátitʹ dénʹgi) — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Spanish: derrochar — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Swedish: slå på stort — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Swedish: frossa — to spend lavishly or extravagantly
- Turkish: saçmak — to spend lavishly or extravagantly