Other forms: splurging, splurged
To splurge is to spend big on a treat you don't strictly need. Splurge on a holiday, a rare splurge, splurged the lot.
It is cheerful and self-aware — nobody splurges by accident, and the word half admits the extravagance while enjoying it. It usually takes on. As a noun a splurge is the spending itself. Note that the word is probably imitative, and probably American, from a blend of splash and surge.
1verbsplurgeTo spend big on a treat you do not strictly need.
“We splurged on a fancy dinner to celebrate our anniversary.”
splurge is an extravagant spending.
Splurge is probably imitative and originally American, perhaps a blend of splash and surge.
Possibly from a splash and surge, originally US. According to the OED, imitative of the sound.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Shopping & Money