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name
A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Uninhibited activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds
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noun
A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Synonyms: carousal
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verb
To engage in a spree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
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Synonyms: carouse
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noun
a brief indulgence of your impulses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
Narrower terms: spending spree
verb
engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gratify, pander, indulge
History
Borrowed from German Spree.
Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”.
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