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say it: splurj
splurge is a noun and verb meaning "an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
any act of immoderate indulgence
“an orgy of shopping”
“an emotional binge”
“a splurge of spending”
be showy or ostentatious
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splurge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.